Writing the History of the Mind by Cristina Chimisso - 9781138249431

Taylor & Francis

For much of the twentieth century, French intellectual life was dominated by theoreticians and historians of mentalit\u00E9. 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. > For much of the twentieth century, French intellectual life was dominated by theoreticians and historians of mentalit\u00E9. Traditionally, the study of the mind and of its limits and capabilities was the domain of philosophy, however in the first decades of the twentieth century practitioners of the emergent human and social sciences were increasingly competing with philosophers in this field: ethnologists, sociologists, psychologists and historians of science were all claiming to study 'how people think'. Scholars, including Gaston Bachel.