The sciences of the soul
Subtitle: the early modern origins of psychology
By: Fernando Vidal ; translated by Saskia Brown
Contributors: Brown, Saskia
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226855868
Subjects: History; Soul; Psychology
Work titles: Sciences de l'âme
Notes: Translation of: Les sciences de l'âme: XVIe-XVIIIe siècle.

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