Article ID: CBB001200596

The French Reception of Völkerpsychologie and the Origins of the Social Sciences (2013)

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This article reconstructs French readings and debates of German approaches to Völkerpsychologie. Irrespective of its academic credentials, Völkerpsychologie was a symptomatic approach during a transformative period in German, and indeed European, intellectual history: based on the idea of progress---both scientific and moral---and on the belief in the primordial importance of the Volk, it represented the mindset of ascendant liberalism in an almost pure form. The relevance and importance of Völkerpsychologie can be gauged from a list of scholars and intellectuals who discussed its merits as well as its problems. Moreover, the reception of Völkerpsychologie was not restricted to German academics: it was in France where central elements of Völkerpsychologie had the most profound effect on scholars who tried to establish a social science. Some of the best-known French academics and intellectuals of the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries---Théodule Ribot, Célestin Bouglé, Ernest Renan, Alfred Fouillée, Emile Durkheim, and Marcel Mauss---commented

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Authors & Contributors
Jana Funke
J. Laurence Hare
Reiners, Stefan
Serge Reubi
Valentina Mann
Jonas Harvard
Concepts
Social sciences
Discipline formation
Psychology
Völkerpsychologie
Transmission of ideas
Nazism
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
18th century
Places
Germany
France
Great Britain
England
United States
Sweden
Institutions
Collège de France, Paris
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