{"product_id":"the-senses-and-the-intellect-first-edition","title":"The Senses and the Intellect (First Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBAIN, Alexander.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Senses and the Intellect.\u003c\/em\u003e London: John W. Parker and Son, 1855.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eLarge Octavo. Half calf and textured cloth. Spine gilt with titling on darker brown panels. Edges spotted red. Marbled endpapers. xxxi, 614 pp. \u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition.\u003c\/strong\u003e Jessop, p. 85; NCBEL III, 1514; Rand I, 111.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eWhen Alexander Bain published \u003cem\u003eThe Senses and the Intellect\u003c\/em\u003e in 1855 — the same year as Herbert Spencer's \u003cem\u003ePrinciples of Psychology\u003c\/em\u003e and two years before Flaubert's \u003cem\u003eMadame Bovary\u003c\/em\u003e — he was attempting something that had not quite been attempted before: a systematic account of the human mind grounded not in metaphysical speculation but in physiology.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eBain was a Scotsman of working-class origin who had risen through the British empiricist tradition and his closest intellectual friendship was with John Stuart Mill, who recommended Parker as his publisher and read the manuscript with care. What Bain produced was a rigorous and comprehensive examination of the senses and the intellect as they were understood in the light of contemporary neurological science: tracing the connections between mental states and nervous activity, arguing for the reality of a muscular sense as a distinct mode of perception, and building an associationist psychology that was at once philosophically serious and experimentally grounded. A foundational work of the history of science, presented in a sound and handsome early binding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVery good.\u003c\/strong\u003e Binding generally very good. Leather supple and in good order. Some mild rubbing at corners and spine ends, small chip to spine. Contents very good with mild and scattered foxing throughout, stronger to preliminaries. Angus \u0026amp; Robertson seller stamp to lower front pastedown.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000400\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alexander Bain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48782403502323,"sku":"1110002940811","price":400.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1.Cover_546bf98a-0c1a-4d50-b125-cfc305c4e7a8.png?v=1774997527","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/the-senses-and-the-intellect-first-edition","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}