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Record Nr.

UNINA9910476767103321

Autore

Goodey C. F.

Titolo

A history of intelligence and "intellectual disability" : the shaping of psychology in early modern Europe / / C.F. Goodey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-4094-8235-9

1-315-56483-1

1-317-18783-0

1-283-12898-5

9786613128980

1-4094-2022-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (392 p.)

Disciplina

153.9'09-dc22

Soggetti

Thought and thinking - Europe - History

Intellect - Europe - History

Psychology - Europe - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published 2011 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Problematical intellects in ancient Greece -- Intelligence and disability : socio-economic structures -- Intelligence and disability : status and political power -- Intelligence, disability and honour -- Intelligence, disability and grace -- Fools and their medical histories -- Psychology, biology and the ethics of exceptionalism -- John Locke and his successors : the historical contingency of disability.

Sommario/riassunto

C.F. Goodey traces the interplay between human types and the changing characteristics attributed to them, from the twelfth-century beginnings of European social administration through to the onset of today's formal human science disciplines. In proposing a theory of intellectual disability as historically contingent, this paradigm-shifting work chronicles the modern concept of human intelligence as a cultural creation with roots in the religious and social matrices of early modern Europe.