Piaget before Piaget /

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 p...

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Main Author: Vidal, Fernando.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1994.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.