Lot 1121
1121
HERBART, Johann Friedrich (1776-1841). Allgemeine Pdagogik aus dem Zweck der Erziehung abgeleitet. Gttingen, 1806. 8o. Contemporary black paste-paper boards, gilt-ruled spine with red paper label, red edges (wear at edges, some light foxing). "Herbart was the founder of pedagogy as an independent science" (Norman 1054) -- Lehrbuch zur Psychologie. Knigsberg and Leipzig, 1816. 8o. Original plain light blue wrappers, uncut (spine worn with chips at ends, text lightly foxed). "Herbart defined psychology as the mechanics of the mind and believed that mental processes could be described with mathematical exactness; in fact, he pioneered the use of mathematical models in psychological theory...Herbart...introduced concepts of suppression which reappear in Freud's theories of the unconscious, and anticipated current theories of memory and forgetting by interactive inhibition" (Norman 1055). FIRST EDITIONS. (2)

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HERBART, Johann Friedrich (1776-1841). Allgemeine Pdagogik aus dem Zweck der Erziehung abgeleitet. Gttingen, 1806. 8o. Contemporary black paste-paper boards, gilt-ruled spine with red paper label, red edges (wear at edges, some light foxing). "Herbart was the founder of pedagogy as an independent science" (Norman 1054) -- Lehrbuch zur Psychologie. Knigsberg and Leipzig, 1816. 8o. Original plain light blue wrappers, uncut (spine worn with chips at ends, text lightly foxed). "Herbart defined psychology as the mechanics of the mind and believed that mental processes could be described with mathematical exactness; in fact, he pioneered the use of mathematical models in psychological theory...Herbart...introduced concepts of suppression which reappear in Freud's theories of the unconscious, and anticipated current theories of memory and forgetting by interactive inhibition" (Norman 1055). FIRST EDITIONS. (2)