Hermann Lotze: An Intellectual Biography (Cambridge Studies in the History of Psychology)

As a philosopher, psychologist, and physician, the German thinker Hermann Lotze (1817-1881) defies classification. Working in the mid-nineteenth-century era of programmatic realism, he critically reviewed and rearranged theories and concepts in books on pathology, physiology, medical psychology, anthropology, history, aesthetics, metaphysics, logic, and religion. Leading anatomists and physiologists reworked his hypotheses about the central and autonomic nervous systems. Dozens of fin-de-siècle philosophical contemporaries emulated him, yet often without acknowledgment, precisely because he had made conjecture and refutation into a method. In spite of Lotze's status as a pivotal figure in nineteenth-century intellectual thought, no complete treatment of his work exists, and certainly no effort to take account of the feminist secondary literature. Hermann Lotze: An Intellectual Biography is the first full-length historical study of Lotze's intellectual origins, scientific community, institutional context, and worldwide reception Cover 1 Half-title page 3 Series page 5 Title page 7 Copyright page 8 Contents 9 Figures 11 Preface 15 Abbreviations 21 Introduction A Scientific Intellectual Biography between Biedermeier and Modern Cosmopolitan Thought 25 Part One Youth in Biedermeier 43 1 Ancestry and Education of a Cultural Reformer (1817–1834) 45 2 Education in Medical Thought and Practice: Working Explanations (1834–1838) 68 3 Education in Philosophy: The Mathematical Construction of Space (1834–1839) 91 4 A Gestalt Metaphysics: Laws, Events, and Values (1838–1841) 114 5 Applying Hypotheses in Pathology and Therapy (1838–1842) 147 6 The Dual Model of Explanation and Speculation (1838–1843) 171 Part Two Emerging Bourgeois Liberalism 195 7 Levels of Physiological Explanation (1843–1851) 197 8 The Physical-Mental Mechanism: An Alternative to Psychophysics (1846–1852) 226 9 Inner Migration or Disguised Reform? Political Interests of Philosophical Anthropology (1852–1864) 252 10 From the Evolution of Culture to the Human Sciences (1852–1858) 276 11 A Feminist Turn in Secular Theology (1858–1864) 308 Part Three The System in the Bismarck Period 345 12 From an Aesthetics of Everyday Life to Dilthey’s Lived Experience (1864–1868) 347 13 Between Objectivism and Relativism: Logic as Theory of Inquiry (1868–1874) 376 14 The Metaphysical Foundations of Matter and Mind (1874–1879) 402 15 The Personal Is the Political: A Cosmopolitan Ethics (1864–1881) 430 Postscript: Historiographic Lessons of Lotze Research 459 Appendix 1 Chronology of Hermann Lotze’s Life 473 Appendix 2 Publications and Published Letters of Hermann Lotze (in chronological order, with abbreviations usedinfootnotes) 476 Appendix 3 Unpublished Sources 484 Appendix 4 Dissertations with Lotze’s Evaluative Remarks (Promotionsschriften and Habilitationsschriften) 489 Index 499 Content: Introduction: a scientific biography between Biedermeier and modern cosmopolitan thought Part I. Youth in Biedermeier: 1. Ancestry and education of a cultural reformer (1817-34) 2. Education in medical thought and practice: working explanations (1834-8) 3. Education in philosophy: the mathematical construction of space (1834-9) 4. A Gestalt metaphysics: laws, events, and values (1838-41) 5. Applying hypotheses in pathology and therapy (1838-42) 6. The dual model of explanation and speculation (1838-43) Part II. Emerging Bourgeois Liberalism: 7. Levels of physiological explanation (1843-51) 8. The physical-mental mechanism: an alternative to psychophysics (1846-52) 9. Inner migration or disguised reform: political interests of philosophical anthropology (1852-64) 10. Educating the bourgeois liberal in a culturally conservative time (1852-8) 11. The psychological turn of liberal theology (1858-64) Part III. The System in the Bismarck Period: 12. Empathy and beauty: moving aesthetics into the public sphere (1864-7) 13. Logic between scientific inquiry and speculative thought (1867-74) 14. The metaphysical foundations of modern science (1874-9) 15. The personal is the political: a cosmopolitan ethics (1864-81) Postscript: historiographic lessons of Lotze research. "As a philosopher, psychologist, and physician, the German thinker Hermann Lotze (1817-81) defies classification. Working in the mid-nineteenth-century era of programmatic realism, he critically reviewed and rearranged theories and concepts in books on pathology, physiology, medical psychology, anthropology, history, aesthetics, metaphysics, logic, and religion. Leading anatomists and physiologists reworked his hypotheses about the central and autonomic nervous systems. Dozens of fin-de-siècle philosophical contemporaries emulated him, yet often without acknowledgment, precisely because he had made conjecture and refutation into a method. In spite of Lotze's status as a pivotal figure in nineteenth-century intellectual thought, no complete treatment of his work exists, and certainly no effort to take account of the feminist secondary literature. Hermann Lotze: An Intellectual Biography is the first full-length historical study of Lotze's intellectual origins, scientific community, institutional context, and worldwide reception."--Provided by publisher As a philosopher, psychologist, and physician, the German thinker Hermann Lotze (1817-81) defies classification. Working in the mid-nineteenth-century era of programmatic realism, he critically reviewed and rearranged theories and concepts in books on pathology, physiology, medical psychology, anthropology, history, aesthetics, metaphysics, logic, and religion. Leading anatomists and physiologists reworked his hypotheses about the central and autonomic nervous systems. Dozens of fin-de-siècle philosophical contemporaries emulated him, yet often without acknowledgment, precisely because he had made conjecture and refutation into a method. In spite of Lotze's status as a pivotal figure in nineteenth-century intellectual thought, no complete treatment of his work exists, and certainly no effort to take account of the feminist secondary literature. Hermann Lotze: An Intellectual Biography is the first full-length historical study of Lotze's intellectual origins, scientific community, institutional context, and worldwide reception.-- Provided by publisher As a philosopher, psychologist, and physician, the German thinker Hermann Lotze (1817 1881) defies classification. Working in the mid-nineteenth-century era of programmatic realism, he critically reviewed and rearranged theories and concepts in books on pathology, physiology, medical psychology, anthropology, history, aesthetics, metaphysics, logic, and religion. Leading anatomists and physiologists reworked his hypotheses about the central and autonomic nervous systems. Dozens of fin-de-siecle philosophical contemporaries emulated him, yet often without acknowledgment, precisely because he had made conjecture and refutation into a method. In spite of Lotze's status as a pivotal figure in nineteenth-century intellectual thought, no complete treatment of his work exists, and certainly no effort to take account of the feminist secondary literature. Hermann Lotze: An Intellectual Biography is the first full-length historical study of Lotze's intellectual origins, scientific community, institutional context, and worldwide reception." As a philosopher, psychologist, and physiologist, the nineteenth-century German thinker Hermann Lotze defies classification. This book is the first full-length historical study of Lotze's intellectual origins and institutional context and thus enriches the current scholarship in the history of philosophy, psychology, and medicine. The first full-length historical study of the intellectual origins and institutional context of the nineteenth-century German thinker Hermann Lotze William R. Woodward, University Of New Hampshire. Includes Index. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.