Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures and Tables ix
4. Ad Limen xi
5. 1. The “Century of Psychology” 1
6. 2. “Psychology” in the Sixteenth Century: A Project in the Making? 21
7. 3. From the Science of the Living Being to the Science of the Human Mind 58
8. 4. Psychology in the Age of Enlightenment 98
9. 5. Historicizing Psychology 156
10. 6. Psychology and the History of Humankind 185
11. 7. Anthropology’s Place in the Encyclopedias 243
12. 8. Human Perfectibility and the Primacy of Psychology 283
13. 9. Psychology, the Body, and Personal Identity 325
14. Appendix 1. The Two Editions of Goclenius’s Psychologia 351
15. Appendix 2. Anthropologie and Psychologie in the Paris and Yverdon Encyclopédies 353
16. Appendix 3. Articles in the Yverdon Encyclopédie Belonging to Psychology and Their Place in the Paris Encyclopédie 362
17. Bibliography 365
18. Index 407