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Elements Of Folk Psychology - Outline Of A Psychological History Of The Development Of Mankind (Hardcover)
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ELEMENTS OF FOLK PSYCHOLOGY OUTLINES OF A PSYCHOLOGICAL HISTORY OF
THE DEVELOPMENT OF MANKIND by WILHELM WUNDT. PREFACE: THE keen
interest which the present age is manifesting in problems connected
with the interpretation of human experience is no less a result
than it is a precondition of the fruitful labours of individual
scholars. Prominent among these is the distinguished author of the
volume which is herewith rendered accessible to English readers.
The impetus which Professor Wundt has given to the philosophical
and psychological studies of recent years is a matter of common
knowledge. Many of those who are contributing richly to these
fields of thought received their stimulus from instruction directly
enjoyed in the laboratory and the classrooms of Leipzig. But even
more than to Wundt, the teacher, is the world indebted to Wundt,
the investigator and the writer. The number and comprehensiveness
of this authors publications, as well as their range of subjects,
are little short of amazing. To gauge the extent of their influence
would require an examination of a large part of current
philosophical and psychological literature. No small measure of
this influence, however, must be credited to those whose labours
have made possible the appearance of Wundts writings in other
tongues. Of the English translations, we owe the first to
Professors Creighton and Titchener. Succeeding their translation of
the Lectures on Human and Animal Psychology came the publication,
in English, of the first volume of the 4t Principles of Physio
logical Psychology, of the two briefer treatises, Outlines of
Psychology and Introduction to Psychology 1 and, in the meantime,
of the valuable work on Ethics.Though Professor Wundt first won
recognition through his investigations in . physiology, it was his
later and more valuable contributions to physiological psychology,
as well as to logic, ethics, epistemology, and metaphysics, that
gained for him his place of eminence in the world of scholarship.
One may hazard the prophecy, however, that the final verdict of
history will ascribe to his latest studies those in folk
psychology, a significance not inferior to that which is now
generally conceded to the writings of his earlier years. The other
psychologie is a truly monumental work. The analysis and
interpretation of language, art, mythology, and religion, and the
criticisms of rival theories and points of view, which occupy, its
five largie volumes of over three thousand pages, are at once so
judicial and so suggestive that they may not be neglected by, any
serious student of the social mind. The publication of the
Vdlkerpsychotogie made necessary a number of defensive and
supplementary articles. Two of these, in a somewhat revised form,
together with an early article on The Aim and Methods of Folk
Psychology, and an additional essay on Pragmatic and Genetic
Psychology of Religion were published in 1911 under the title,
Problem der Vdtker, psychologie. Finally, in 1912, there appeared
the book which we are now presenting in translation, the Element
der Volkerpsychotogie. As regards to the difference in method and
character between the Element e and the Volker psychologie, nothing
need be added to what may, be gleaned from the authors Preface and
Introduction to this, his latest, work. Here, too, Professor Wundt
indicates his conception of the nature and the problem of folk
psychology, aFuller discussion of which may, be found both in the
VStkcrpsychologie and in the first essay of the Problemc He who
attempts to sketch the Outlines of tf Psychological History of the
Development of Mankind necessarily incurs a heavy indebtedness, as
regards to his material, to various more specialized sciences...
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
November 2008 |
First published: |
November 2008 |
Authors: |
Wilhelm Wundt
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Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 34mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Laminated cover
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Pages: |
564 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4437-2059-5 |
Categories: |
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Psychology >
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LSN: |
1-4437-2059-3 |
Barcode: |
9781443720595 |
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