Psychology: Briefer Course - Couverture rigide

James, William

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0674721020 ISBN 13 : 9780674721029

Editeur : Harvard University Press, 1985

Synopsis

Today's scholars know James's psychology primarily through his great Principles of Psychology (1890), but those who studied the subject at the turn of the century were more apt to learn his view through his Psychology: Briefer Course (1892). Indeed, professors at colleges and universities throughout the United States use this book--which their students labeled "Jimmy" to distinguish it from the larger "James"--in their classes, and more than six times as many copies of the Briefer Course were sold by 1902 as were sets of Principles.

Despite its title, the Briefer Course is more than a simple condensation of the larger work. For example, to the material from Principles James added several chapters on the physiology of the senses that helped mesh his psychology with the other sciences of the period. The earlier chapter title "The Stream of Thought" is replaced here with "The Stream of Consciousness." Psychology: Briefer Course remains a useful and highly readable introduction to James's views on psychology and is an essential source for anyone interested in studying all of his psychological writings.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

In preparing the following abridgment of my larger work, the Principles of Psycho}ogy,,my chief aim has been to make it more directly available for class-room use. iF or this purpose I have omitted several whole chapters and rewritten others. I have left out all the polemical and historical matter, all the metaphysical discussions and purely speculative passages, most of the quotations, all the book-references, and (I trust) all the impertinences, of the larger work, leaving to the teacher the choice of orally restoring as much of this material as may seem to him good, along with his own remarks on the topics successively studied. Knowing how ignorant the average student is of i physiology, I have added brief chapters on the various senses. In this shorter work the general point of view, which I have adopted as that of natural science has, I imagine, gained in clearness by its extrication from so much critical matter and its more simple and dogmatic statement. A bout two fifths of the volume is either new or rewritten, the rest is scissors and paste. I regret to have been unable to supply chapters on pleasure and pain, aesthetics, and the moral sense. Possibly the defect may be made up in a later edition, if such a thing should ever I be demanded. I cannot forbear taking advantage of this preface to make a statement about the composition of the Principles of Psychology.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harvard University Press
• Date d'édition: 1985
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0674721020
• ISBN 13: 9780674721029
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 602
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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