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The Stepchildren of Science
Heather Wolffram
其他書名
Psychical Research and Parapsychology in Germany, C. 1870-1939
出版
Rodopi
, 2009
主題
History / Europe / Germany
Literary Criticism / European / German
Medical / History
Body, Mind & Spirit / Occultism
Psychology / General
Psychology / History
ISBN
9789042027282
9042027282
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Wk0z-q2_wOcC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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Leading the reader through the darkened séance rooms and laboratories of Imperial and inter-war Germany,
The Stepchildren of Science
casts light on the emergence of psychical research and parapsychology in the German context. It looks, in particular, at the role of the psychiatrist Albert von Schrenck-Notzing - a figure who fashioned himself as both propagandist and Grand Seignior of German parapsychology - in shaping these nascent disciplines. In contrast to other recent studies in which occultism is seen as a means of dealing with or creating "the modern", this book considers the epistemological, cultural and social issues that arose from psychical researchers' and parapsychologists' claims to scientific legitimacy. Focusing on the boundary disputes between these researchers and the spiritualists, occultists, psychologists and scientists with whom they competed for authority over the paranormal,
The Stepchildren of Science
demonstrates that in the German context both proponents and opponents alike understood psychical research and parapsychology as border sciences.