German Tradition of Psychology in Literature and Thought, 1700-1840

Informationen zum Autor Matthew Bell is Senior Lecturer in German and Director of the Comparative Literature Programme at King's College London.The period from 1700 to 1840 produced some highly sophisticated psychological theorising that became central to German intellectual and cultural life long before the commonly accepted start of psychology as a discipline in the late-nineteenth century. Matthew Bell analyses expressions of psychological theory in Goethe, Kant, Schiller and others. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The 'long past': psychology before 1700; 2. The Enlightenment: rationalism and sensibility; 3. Melancholy Titans and suffering women in Storm and Stress drama; 4. Weimar classicism and empirical psychology; 5. Idealism's campaign against psychology; 6. Romanticism and animal magnetism; 7. After Romanticism: the physiological unconscious; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Bell, Matthew Dr Bell
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.06.2009
• EAN: 9780521114165
• ISBN: 978-0-521-11416-5
• No. of pages: 316
• Series: Cambridge Studies in German; Cambridge Studies in German
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > German linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / General, german, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Literary studies: general, Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, Psychological theory & schools of thought, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, C 1700 To C 1800