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Author Brower, M. Brady.

Title Unruly spirits : the science of psychic phenomena in modern France / M. Brady Brower.

Publication Info. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 202 pages) : illustrations
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-193) and index.
Contents Introduction : psychical research and French science -- From religious enthusiasm to reluctant science : psychical research, 1848-1882 -- The development of psychical research in France, 1882-1900 -- The measure of uncertainty : the Institut general psychologique, 1900-1908 -- The master and his double : Charles Richet and the literary unconscious -- In the wake of war : the Institut metapsychique international -- The limits of method : the question of good faith and the decline of psychical research -- Conclusion : indeterminacy and the discourse of tables.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Parapsychology -- France -- History.
Parapsychology.
France.
History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Brower, M. Brady. Unruly spirits. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2010 9780252035647 (DLC) 2010018141 (OCoLC)601331307
ISBN 9780252090059 (electronic book)
0252090055 (electronic book)
9780252077517
0252077512
9780252035647
025203564X
Standard No. 9786613028747