Unruly spirits the science of psychic phenomena in modern France / M. Brady Brower.

Author/creator Brower, M. Brady
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Publication InfoUrbana : University of Illinois Press,
Descriptionxi, 202 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Contents Introduction : psychical research and French science -- From religious enthusiasm to reluctant science : psychical research, 1848-1882 -- The development of psychical research in France, 1882-1900 -- The measure of uncertainty : the Institut général psychologique, 1900-1908 -- The master and his double : Charles Richet and the literary unconscious -- In the wake of war : the Institut métapsychique international -- The limits of method : the question of good faith and the decline of psychical research -- Conclusion : indeterminacy and the discourse of tables.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2010018141
ISBN9780252035647 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN025203564X (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780252077517 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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