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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783620103321

Autore

Brentano Franz Clemens <1838-1917.>

Titolo

Descriptive psychology [[electronic resource] /] / Franz Brentano ; translated and edited by Benito Müller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1995

ISBN

1-134-84052-7

1-280-10520-8

0-203-29805-5

0-203-00604-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (227 p.)

Collana

International library of philosophy

Altri autori (Persone)

MüllerBenito <1958->

Disciplina

150.19/8

Soggetti

Descriptive psychology

Phenomenological psychology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

DESCRIPTIVE PSYCHOLOGY; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I The task of psychognosy; 1 Psychognosy and Genetic Psychology; 2 Elements of Consciousness; Unity, not simplicity of consciousness; Separable and distinctional parts; A fictitious example; Distinctional parts in the strict sense; Distinctional parts in the modified sense; 3 The Correct Method of the Psychognost; Introduction; Experiencing; Noticing; Fixing; Inductive generalization; Making deductive use; Psychognosy as precondition for genetic psychology; Part II A survey of psychognosy

1 The Components of Human Consciousness2 Psychical Acts; Introduction; Two main classes of psychical acts: fundamental acts and superposed acts; The nature of fundamental psychical acts; The primary objects of fundamental psychical acts; 3 The General Character of Sensations; Spatial determination; Of what fills space; Appendices; Appendix 1 Inner Perception; Appendix 2 Descriptive Psychology or Descriptive Phenomenology; The concept of descriptive psychology; The genesis of descriptive psychology; Summary; Appendix 3 Of The Content of Experiences; Appendix 4 Psychognostic Sketch

IntroductionOf the relations of the soul; Appendix 5 Psychognostic



Sketch: Different Adaptation; Psychognosy; Psychology; Appendix 6 Perceiving, Apperceiving, Clearly Apperceiving, Compounded Apperceiving, Transcendentally Apperceiving; Editors' notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Franz Brentano (1838-1917) is a key figure in the development of Twentieth Century thought.  It was his work that set Husserl on to the road of phenomenology and intentionality, that inspired Meinong's theory of the object which influenced Bertrand Russell, and the entire Polish school of philosophy.^Descriptive Psychology presents a series of lectures given by Brentano in 1887; they were the culmination of his work, and the clearest statement of his mature thought. It was this later period which proved to be so important in the work of his student, Husserl.This is the first English tr