Making Spirit Matter: Neurology, Psychology, and Selfhood in Modern France by La

Description: Making Spirit Matter by Larry Sommer McGrath The connection between mind and brain has been one of the most persistent problems in modern Western thought; even recent advances in neuroscience havent been able to explain it satisfactorily. Historian Larry Sommer McGraths 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Larry Sommer McGrath leads ethnographic studies to provide business strategy for technology and life science organizations. Formerly, he taught at Wesleyan University and Johns Hopkins University. Table of 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 Spirits Catholic Soul Epilogue Acknowledgments List of Archives Consulted Notes Index Review "A tour-de-force intellectual history that studies one of the most enduring problems in Western thought, namely, connecting the processes of the mind with the anatomical brain. . . . This book will appeal to scholars of modern French thought, historians of science, and humanists seeking to enrich their account of the human spirit." * Choice *"In this deeply researched, intellectually pioneering, and wonderfully stimulating new study, McGrath shows that Henri Bergson hoped to renovate his tradition of French spiritualism for a new age, and drew on cutting-edge natural scientific findings to do so. Making Spirit Matter is a scholarly triumph, relevant for how humanists negotiate their own relationship to natural science today." * Samuel Moyn, Yale University *"Ever since Descartes tore apart the metaphysical bond between mind and world—between res cogitans and res extensa—philosophers and scientists have been pondering the question of how the wound might be healed. In this fascinating and carefully researched study, McGrath explores how thinkers offered new answers to this old puzzle, and how the threadbare idea of spirit found a new and more respectable incarnation in the scientific languages of neurology and psychology. A truly fascinating chapter in the intellectual history of modern France." * Peter E. Gordon, Harvard University * Review Quote "In this deeply researched, intellectually pioneering, and wonderfully stimulating new study, McGrath shows that Henri Bergson hoped to renovate his tradition of French spiritualism for a new age, and drew on cutting-edge natural scientific findings to do so. Making Spirit Matter is a scholarly triumph, relevant for how humanists negotiate their own relationship to natural science today." Details ISBN022669982X Pages 280 Year 2020 ISBN-10 022669982X ISBN-13 9780226699820 Format Paperback Imprint University of Chicago Press Subtitle Neurology, Psychology, and Selfhood in Modern France Place of Publication Chicago, IL Country of Publication United States Short Title Making Spirit Matter Language English Publication Date 2020-10-19 UK Release Date 2020-10-19 AU Release Date 2020-10-19 NZ Release Date 2020-10-19 US Release Date 2020-10-19 Author Larry Sommer McGrath Publisher The University of Chicago Press DEWEY 944 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161781028;

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