Johann Christian WOLF
Psychologie ou traité sur l'ame, contenant les connoissances que nous en donne l'experience
Chez Pierre Mortier|1745|10 x 17 cm|relié
First French edition, after the original German published in 1732 under the title: Psychologia empirica.
Contemporary full brown sheep binding. Decorated spine with raised bands. Red morocco title-label. One lack at head, similar lacks at foot. Joints cracked at head and foot. Corners slightly bumped. Title page with browning to margins.
Wolf sought to redefine philosophy as a whole based on a stable principle of knowledge founded on deduction and the model of geometry; a rationalist, he was a disciple of Leibniz from whom he borrowed many concepts. And yet for the first time in the history of philosophy, Wolf conferred an autonomy on psycholog
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