Beschreibung:
For much of the twentieth century, French intellectual life was dominated by theoreticians and historians of mentalité. Cristina Chimisso reconstructs the world of these intellectuals and presents the key debates in the philosophy of mind of this time, and the social and institutional context in which these ideas were formulated. This study will be invaluable for scholars studying the history and historiography of science and philosophy.
Contents: Introduction; The history of philosophy in the first decades of the 20th century: the spaces and the students; The history of philosophy in the first decades of the 20th century: theory and objectives; The meaning and uses of history: challenges to the history of philosophy; Approaches to the history of the mind: the history of science between philosophy and history; Approaches to the history of the mind: the history of science and the history of thought; From the laboratory to the tribunal: historical epistemology; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.