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Vittorio Benussi in the History of Psychology

New Ideas of a Century Ago

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  • © 2018

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Authors:
  1. Mauro Antonelli

    1. Dipartimento di Psicologia, Università di Milano - Bicocca, Milano, Italy

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  • First English publication covering the life and works of Vittorio Benussi
  • Includes coverage of the phenomenological psychology of the Brentano School
  • Witten by the leading scholar on Benussi

Part of the book series: Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind (SHPM, volume 21)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Mauro Antonelli
    Pages 1-2

  3. The Austrian Path Toward Gestalt Psychology: From Brentano to Benussi, via Meinong

    • Mauro Antonelli
    Pages 3-100

  4. Vittorio Benussi: A Difficult Life, a Tragic Fate

    • Mauro Antonelli
    Pages 101-143

  5. The Graz Period

    • Mauro Antonelli
    Pages 145-260

  6. The Padua Period

    • Mauro Antonelli
    Pages 261-317

  7. Conclusion

    • Mauro Antonelli
    Pages 319-331

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 333-377
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About this book

This book covers the basic guidelines of Vittorio Benussi’s research during the period at Graz and at Padua. It does so in the light of a thorough study of his Nachlass. The book re-evaluates Benussi’s work as a historical piece, and shows how his work is still relevant today, especially in the areas of cognitive psychology and cognitive science. The volume deals with this original and ingenious - though largely ignored - scholar and discusses his work as a leading experimental psychologist. Benussi’s contributions as discussed in this book were particularly relevant in the fields of visual and tactile perception, time perception, forensic psychology, hypnosis and suggestion, unconscious, and emotions. His classical papers are impressive in their originality, energy, range of approaches, experimental skill, the wealth of findings, and the quality of theoretical discussions. This book demonstrates that Benussi was ahead of his time and that his themes, experiments and research programmes are highly relevant to contemporary cognitive psychology.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Dipartimento di Psicologia, Università di Milano - Bicocca, Milano, Italy

    Mauro Antonelli

About the author

Mauro Antonelli is professor of History and Epistemology of Psychology at the University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy, and Privatdozent of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy and at the Alexius Meinong Institute of the Karl-Franzens-University of Graz, Austria. His main research interests include the history of German and Austrian philosophy and psychology in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Brentano and the Brentano School, phenomenological psychology, the philosophy and psychology of time.

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