The Sciences of the Soul: The Early Modern Origins of Psychology - Fernando Vidal - Books - The University of Chicago Press - 9780226855868 - December 15, 2011
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The Sciences of the Soul: The Early Modern Origins of Psychology


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Explains the development of the disciplinary conception of psychology from its appearance in the late sixteenth century to its redefinition at the end of the seventeenth and its emergence as an institutionalized field in the eighteenth. This title reveals that psychology existed before the eighteenth century essentially as a "physics of the soul".


440 pages, 3 halftones, 14 line drawings, 8 tables

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released December 15, 2011
ISBN13 9780226855868
Publishers The University of Chicago Press
Pages 440
Dimensions 235 × 80 × 3 mm   ·   704 g
Translator Brown, Saskia

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