{"product_id":"the-sciences-of-the-soul-9780226710365","title":"The Sciences of the Soul","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Firm scholarly conviction has it that psychology began as a scientific discipline only in the last part of the nineteenth century. Fernando Vidal thoroughly overturns that assumption in his compelling historical reconstruction of the development of psychology from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. He shows how the concept of soul, initially caught in scholastic rationalism, underwent an empirical transformation from the form of the body to the activities of the mind, a mind whose intense thought had been compared to ‘a ligature applied to all of the nerves.’ By contrast, Vidal’s work—linguistically adroit, amazingly comprehensive, and scholarly satisfying—releases the nervous fluids to invigorate the mind of the reader. No other history comes close to his exquisite accomplishment.” -- Robert J. Richards, University of Chicago\u003cbr\u003e“This is a very impressive book, a work of high and original scholarship. Vidal follows the history of the concept of ‘psychologia’ from the sixteenth century and argues that even without there being already a ‘discipline,’ one can talk of a sound psychological thinking from that time on. Vidal demonstrates how key ideas of eighteenth-century ‘psychology’—the concept of the \u003ci\u003eesprit humain\u003c\/i\u003e; the connections between anthropology, psychology, and moral sciences; and the notion of perfectibility—found their beginnings in the sixteenth century. \u003ci\u003eThe Sciences of the Soul\u003c\/i\u003e will be the standard reference work on early modern ‘psychology’ for specialists in psychology, anthropology, philosophy, and the history of science.” -- Martin Mulsow, University of Erfurt\u003cbr\u003e“[A] highly significant contribution to the early history of psychology. It will be indispensable for any further study of the origins of modern psychology.” -- Jörgen L. Pind, University of Iceland * British Journal for the History of Science *\u003cbr\u003e“[Vidal] draws a compelling picture of psychology’s shift from philosophy and religion to science. . . . Recommended.”\u003cbr\u003e -- B. C. Beins, Ithaca College * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Sciences of the Soul\u003c\/i\u003e is clearly the product of a substantial period of sustained research. It will set the framework for research in the history of psychology in the period from 1600 to 1850 for many years to come and will also entail changes in the usual discussion of the ‘origin’ of psychology as a discipline.” -- Gary Hatfield, author of Perception \u0026amp; Cognition: Essays in the Philosophy of Psychology\u003cbr\u003e\"Highly informative and well-documented. . . . A great book, which has the merit of reshaping completely the historical framework within which the early modern origins of psychology must be understood.\" -- Paul J. J. M. Bakker, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. * Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences *\u003cbr\u003e\"Ambitious, erudite, and stimulating.\" -- Michael Edwards * Social History of Medicine *\u003cbr\u003e\"It brings to light a lost continent of literature that has yet to make its appearance in the standard textbooks on the history of psychology. It also provides us with the missing link between  Aristotle’s work on the soul and the modern discipline of psychology that usually considers itself to be a science.\" -- Adrian Brock * Centaurus *\u003cbr\u003e\"A much more nuanced and textured view of the eighteenth-century sciences of mind than has hitherto been available.\" -- L. S. Jacyna * Annals of Science *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures and Tables  \u003cbr\u003eAd Limen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1 The “Century of Psychology”      Psychology as a “discipline” \u003cbr\u003e     A long past but a short history? \u003cbr\u003eChapter 2 “Psychology” in the Sixteenth Century: A Project in the Making?     The function of the neologism “psychology” \u003cbr\u003e     Aristotelianism and Galenism \u003cbr\u003e     \u003ci\u003ePsychologia\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003escientia de anima \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e     Rudolph Goclenius’s \u003ci\u003ePsychologia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3 From the Science of the Living Being to the Science of the Human Mind      Psychology as the generic science of the living being \u003cbr\u003e     \u003ci\u003ePsychologia\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eempsychologia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     On whether \u003ci\u003ede anima\u003c\/i\u003e books can themselves constitute a science \u003cbr\u003e     From soul-form to soul-mind \u003cbr\u003e     Psychology as a metaphysics of the rational soul \u003cbr\u003e     The new psychology: Christian Wolff \u003cbr\u003eChapter 4 Psychology in the Age of Enlightenment      Psychology, anthropology and the human sciences \u003cbr\u003e     A Republic of Letters \u003cbr\u003e     Methodological discussions in Enlightenment psychology \u003cbr\u003e         “The best way to perfect this fine Science” \u003cbr\u003eChapter 5 Historicizing Psychology\u003cbr\u003e     Inventing a bibliographic tradition \u003cbr\u003e     Constructing a history for psychology \u003cbr\u003e     “Psychologiae historico-criticae speciminae” \u003cbr\u003e     The history of the “theory of ideas” \u003cbr\u003e     Philosophers write the history of psychology \u003cbr\u003eChapter 6 Psychology and the History of Humankind\u003cbr\u003e     Friedrich August Carus and the “history of humanity” \u003cbr\u003e     The primitives and the ancients \u003cbr\u003e     Toward a total history of psychology \u003cbr\u003e     The psychology of the Hebrews \u003cbr\u003e     Homeric psychology \u003cbr\u003eChapter 7 Anthropology’s Place in the Encyclopedias\u003cbr\u003e     Enlightenment encyclopedias \u003cbr\u003e          The Syntax of the \u003ci\u003eEncyclopédies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     The Paris and Yverdon \u003ci\u003eEncyclopédies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     The “Systèmes figurés” \u003cbr\u003e     Anthropology in the text \u003cbr\u003e     The anthropological transformation of morals \u003cbr\u003eChapter 8 Human Perfectibility and the Primacy of Psychology\u003cbr\u003e     Psychology in the Paris \u003ci\u003eEncyclopédie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Psychology in the Yverdon \u003ci\u003eEncyclopédie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     The fields claimed for psychology \u003cbr\u003e        Metaphysics \u003cbr\u003e        Logic \u003cbr\u003e        Morals \u003cbr\u003e     The psycho-anthropology of perfectibility \u003cbr\u003e        The union and interaction of the soul and the body \u003cbr\u003eChapter 9 Psychology, the Body and Personal Identity \u003cbr\u003e     The soul, the body and the “completeness of the nerve” \u003cbr\u003e     Psycho-theology and “modern identity” \u003cbr\u003e        The body in resurrection \u003cbr\u003e        The loss of the body \u003cbr\u003e        The seed and the brain \u003cbr\u003e     The emergence of the cerebral subject \u003cbr\u003eAppendix I The Two Editions of Goclenius’s \u003ci\u003ePsychologia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAppendix II ANTHROPOLOGIE and PSYCHOLOGIE in the Paris and Yverdon \u003ci\u003eEncyclopédies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAppendix III Articles from the Yverdon\u003ci\u003e Encyclopédie\u003c\/i\u003e Belonging to Psychology and Their Place in the Paris \u003ci\u003eEncyclopédie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400093999447,"sku":"9780226710365","price":33.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226710365.jpg?v=1730469699","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-sciences-of-the-soul-9780226710365","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}