Summary Of "Psychology 1850-1950" By Michel Foucault - UNIVERSITY SUMMARIES - E-book - ePub

We have summarized here the essential of this book by the author. Foucault, MichelPSYCHOLOGY 1850-1950IntroductionTHE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY INTENDED TO BE A POSITIVE KNOWLEDGE AND WAS SUPPORTED ON TWO PHILOSOPHICAL POSTULATES: THAT THE TRUTH OF MAN WAS EXHAUSTED IN HIS NATURAL BEING AND THAT SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE SHOULD PASS THROUGH THE DETERMINATION OF THE QUANTITATIVE, THE CONSTRUCTION OF HYPOTHESES AND THE VERIFICATION EXPERIMENTAL.
IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY THESE POSITIONS COME INTO CONTRADICTION AND BY PURSUING THE RIGOR OF THE ACCURACY OF THE NATURAL SCIENCES, THEIR PRINCIPLES WAIVED: OBJECTIVITY IN THE DOMAIN OF THE HUMAN SCIENCES IS NO LONGER ACCEPTABLE, IF MAN HIMSELF DOES NOT BELONG ONLY TO THE ORDER OF NATURE