| Description |
1 online resource (278 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Chapter 1: The formations of French spiritualism -- Chapter 2: Measuring the machinery of the brain -- Chapter 3: Science and spirit in the classroom -- Chapter 4: Locating selfhood in the brain -- Chapter 5: The institutions of the intellect, or spirit contra Kant -- Chapter 6: Struggles for spirit's Catholic soul |
| Summary |
The connection between mind and brain has been one of the most persistent problems in modern Western thought; even recent advances in neuroscience haven't been able to explain it satisfactorily. Historian Larry Sommer McGrath's Making Spirit Matter studies how a particularly productive and influential group of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French thinkers attempted to solve this puzzle by showing the mutual dependence of spirit and matter. The scientific revolution taking place at this point in history across disciplines, from biology to psychology and neurology, located our mental powers in the brain and offered a radical reformulation of the meaning of society, spirit, and the self. Tracing connections among thinkers such as Henri Bergson, Alfred Fouillée, Jean-Marie Guyau, and others, McGrath plots alternative intellectual movements that revived themes of creativity, time, and experience by applying the very sciences that seemed to undermine metaphysics and religion. Making Spirit Matter lays out 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 today |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 21, 2020) |
| Subject |
Spiritualism (Philosophy)
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Mind and body -- France
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Philosophy, French -- 19th century.
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Philosophy, French -- 20th century.
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Philosophy and science -- France
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HISTORY -- General.
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Intellectual life
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Mind and body
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Philosophy and science
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Philosophy, French
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Spiritualism (Philosophy)
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| SUBJECT |
France -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051441
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France -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051442
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France
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
022669996X |
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9780226699967 |
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