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Making spirit matter : neurology, psychology, and selfhood in modern France
- Title
- Making spirit matter : neurology, psychology, and selfhood in modern France / Larry Sommer McGrath.
- Author
- McGrath, Larry Sommer
- Publication
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2020.
- ©2020
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Details
- Description
- 278 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- "The problem of the relation between mind and brain has been among the most persistent in modern Western thought, one that even recent advances in neuroscience haven't been able to put to rest. Historian Larry McGrath's Making Spirit Matter is about how a particularly productive and influential generation of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French thinkers attempted to answer this puzzle by showing the mutual dependence of spirit and matter. The veritable revolution taking place across disciplines, from philosophy to psychology, located our spiritual powers in the brain and offered a radical reformulation of the meaning of science, spirit, and the self. Pulling out connections between thinkers such as Bergson, Blondel, and Fouille̹e, among others, McGrath plots the intellectual movements that brought back to life themes of agency, time, and experience by putting into action the very sciences that seemed to undermine metaphysics and theology. In so doing, Making Spirit Matter lays bare the long legacy of this moment in the history of ideas and how it might renew our understanding of the relationship between mind and brain"--
- Subject
- 1800-1999
- Spiritualism (Philosophy)
- Mind and body > France
- Philosophy, French > 19th century
- Philosophy, French > 20th century
- Philosophy and science > France
- Intellectual life
- Mind and body
- Philosophy and science
- Philosophy, French
- France > Intellectual life > 19th century
- France > Intellectual life > 20th century
- France
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- The formations of French spiritualism -- Measuring the machinery of the brain -- Science and spirit in the classroom -- Locating selfhood in the brain -- The institutions of the intellect, or Spirit contra Kant -- Struggles for spirit's Catholic soul -- Epilogue.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-871
- ISBN
- 9780226699790
- 022669979X
- 9780226699820
- 022669982X
- 9780226699967 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2020001642
- OCLC
- 1118543728
- Author
- McGrath, Larry Sommer, author.
- Title
- Making spirit matter : neurology, psychology, and selfhood in modern France / Larry Sommer McGrath.
- Publisher
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2020.
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1999
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-871