"Our Science Must Establish Itself": On the Scientific Status of Lazarus and Steinthal's Völkerpsychologie.
Often denied scientific status, Völkerpsychologie was set forth as a psychological program endeavoring to find insights into the structure and content of the 'mind' of social groups, especially 'peoples', which were regarded as the prototypical manifestation of those groups. This article examines ho...
| Published in: | HOPOS: The International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science Vol. 10; no. 1; pp. 234 - 254 |
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University of Chicago Press
Spring2020
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