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Auteur(s) : Vidal, Fernando (1957-....)
Titre(s) : Piaget before Piaget [Texte imprimé] / Fernando Vidal
Publication : Cambridge (Mass.) : Harvard University Press, 1994
Description matérielle : xii, 276 p. : port. ; 25 cm
Comprend : Introduction: Biography and Autobiography ; 1. Neuchatel, an Orderly Little Town ;
2. Mollusk Taxonomy ; 3. Natural History ; 4. The Friends of Nature ; 5. Piaget
Discovers Bergson ; 6. Natural History and Creative Evolution ; 7. At the Threshold
of Biology ; 8. The Protestant Context ; 9. The Problem of Religion ; 10. From
Catechism to Philosophy ; 11. The Mission of the Idea ; 12. The Making of a New
Identity ; 13. Recherche ; 14. The Theory of Equilibrium: From Personal Crisis to
Universal Salvation.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-268) and index
The great Swiss psychologist and theorist Jean Piaget (1896-1980) had much to say
about the developing mind. He also had plenty to say about his own development, much
of it, as Fernando Vidal shows, plainly inaccurate. In the first truly historical
biography of Piaget, Vidal tells the story of the psychologist's intellectual and
personal development up to 1918. By exploring the philosophical, religious, political,
and social influences on the psychologist's early life, Vidal alters our basic assumptions
about the origins of Piaget's thinking and his later psychology. The resulting profile
is strikingly dissimilar to Piaget's own retrospective version. In Piaget's own account,
as an adolescent he was a precocious scientist dedicated to questions of epistemology.
Here we find him also - and increasingly - concerned with the foundations of religious
faith and knowledge, immersed in social and political matters, and actively involved
in Christian and socialist groups. Far from being devoted solely to the classification
of mollusks, the young Piaget was a vocal champion of Henri Bergson's philosophy of
creative evolution, an interest that figured much more prominently in his later thinking
than did his early work in natural history. We see him during World War I chastising
conservatism and nationalism, espousing equality and women's rights, and advocating
the role of youth in the birth of a new Christianity. In his detailed account of Jean
Piaget's childhood and adolescence - enriched by the intellectual and cultural landscape
of turn-of-the-century Neuchatel - Vidal reveals a little-known Piaget, a youth whose
struggle to reconcile science and faith adds a new dimension to our understanding
of the great psychologist's life, thought, and work.
Sujet(s) : Piaget, Jean (1896-1980)
Genre ou forme : Biographie
Indice(s) Dewey :
155.413 092 (23e éd.) = Processus mentaux conscients et intelligence (psychologie de l'enfant) - Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 0674667166 (alk. paper). - ISBN 9780674667167 (alk. paper)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb42268517c
Notice n° :
FRBNF42268517
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