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The sciences of the soul : the early modern origins of psychology /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vidal, Fernando
Other Authors: Brown, Saskia
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Psychology > History.
Psychology > History > 18th century.
Soul.
Table of Contents:
  • The "Century of psychology"
  • Psychology as a discipline
  • A long past but a short history?
  • Psychology in the sixteenth century: a project in the making?
  • The function of the neologism "psychology"
  • Aristotelianism and galenism
  • Psychologia and the scientia de anima
  • Rudolph Goclenius's psychologia
  • From the science of the living being to the science of the human mind
  • Psychology as the generic science of the living being
  • Psychologia and empsychologia
  • On whether de anima books can themselves constitute a science
  • From soul-form to soul-mind
  • Psychology as a metaphysics of the rational soul
  • The new psychology: Christian Wolff
  • Psychology in the age of enlightenment
  • Psychology, anthropology and the human sciences
  • A republic of letters
  • Methodological discussions in enlightenment psychology
  • "The best way to perfect this fine science"
  • Historicizing psychology
  • Inventing a bibliographic tradition
  • Constructing a history for psychology
  • "Psychologiae historico-criticae speciminae"
  • The history of the "theory of ideas"
  • Philosophers write the history of psychology
  • Psychology and the history of humankind
  • Friedrich August Carus and the "history of humanity"
  • The primitives and the ancients
  • Toward a total history of psychology
  • The psychology of the Hebrews
  • Homeric psychology
  • Anthropology's place in the encyclopedias
  • Enlightenment encyclopedias
  • The syntax of the Encyclopédies
  • The Paris and Yverdon Encyclopédies
  • The "systèmes figurés"
  • Anthropology in the text
  • The anthropological transformation of morals
  • Human perfectibility and the primacy of psychology
  • Psychology in the Paris Encyclopédie
  • Psychology in the Yverdon Encyclopédie
  • The fields claimed for psychology
  • Metaphysics
  • Logic
  • Morals
  • The psycho-anthropology of perfectibility
  • The union and interaction of the soul and the body
  • Psychology, the body and personal identity
  • The soul, the body and the "completeness of the nerve"
  • Psycho-theology and "modern identity"
  • The body in resurrection
  • The loss of the body
  • The seed and the brain
  • The emergence of the cerebral subject.