Inventing our Selves
- 232 pages
- 9 hours of reading
Inventing Our Selves radically approaches the regime of the self and the values that animate it.
Cambridge Studies in the History of Psychology Series
This scholarly series delves into the rich and evolving history of psychological thought across diverse cultural landscapes. It meticulously examines the intricate relationships between psychology and other disciplines, including philosophy, medicine, and sociology. The collection offers profound insights into the historical and theoretical foundations of psychology, appealing to academics and anyone interested in intellectual history.
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Hermann Lotze
- 515 pages
- 19 hours of reading
As a philosopher, psychologist, and physician, the German thinker Hermann Lotze (1817-81) defies classification. Working in the mid-nineteenth-century era of programmatic realism, he critically reviewed and rearranged theories and concepts in books on pathology, physiology, medical psychology, anthropology, history, aesthetics, metaphysics, logic, and religion. Leading anatomists and physiologists reworked his hypotheses about the central and autonomic nervous systems. Dozens of fin-de-siècle philosophical contemporaries emulated him, yet often without acknowledgment, precisely because he had made conjecture and refutation into a method. In spite of Lotze's status as a pivotal figure in nineteenth-century intellectual thought, no complete treatment of his work exists, and certainly no effort to take account of the feminist secondary literature. Hermann Lotze: An Intellectual Biography is the first full-length historical study of Lotze's intellectual origins, scientific community, institutional context, and worldwide reception.
The definitive work on the professionalization of psychology in Nazi Germany, now translated from German.