Matthew Bell

The German Tradition of Psychology in Literature and Thought, 1700-1840

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Produktbeschreibung

Short description/annotation
An analysis of psychological thought as expressed in German literature of the eighteenth century.

Main description
The beginnings of psychology are usually dated from experimental psychology and Freudian psychoanalysis in the late nineteenth century. Yet the period from 1700 to 1840 produced some highly sophisticated psychological theorizing that became central to German intellectual and cultural life, well in advance of similar developments in the English-speaking world. Matthew Bell explores how this happened, by analysing the expressions of psychological theory in Goethe's Faust, Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, and in the works of Lessing, Schiller, Kleist, and E. T. A. Hoffmann. This study pays special attention to the role of the German literary renaissance of the last third of the eighteenth century in bringing psychological theory into popular consciousness and shaping its transmission to the nineteenth century. All German texts are translated into English, making this fascinating area of European thought fully accessible to English readers for the first time.

Table of contents:
Introduction; 1. The 'long past': psychology before 1700; 2. The Enlightenment: rationalism and sensibility; 3. Melancholy Titans and suffering women in Storm and Stress drama; 4. Weimar classicism and empirical psychology; 5. Idealism's campaign against psychology; 6. Romanticism and animal magnetism; 7. After Romanticism: the physiological unconscious; Bibliography; Index.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 666g
• ISBN-13: 9780521846264
• ISBN-10: 0521846269
• Artikelnr.: 21783132

Autorenporträt

Matthew Bell is Senior Lecturer in German and Director of the Comparative Literature Programme at King's College London.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The 'long past': psychology before 1700
2. The Enlightenment: rationalism and sensibility
3. Melancholy Titans and suffering women in Storm and Stress drama
4. Weimar classicism and empirical psychology
5. Idealism's campaign against psychology
6. Romanticism and animal magnetism
7. After Romanticism: the physiological unconscious
Bibliography
Index.