Kardec and the laboratories of the spirits: controversies, places of production and inscriptions of an “ungraspable” scientific object: 1857-1860

The thesis reconstructs the complex process of enunciation and denunciation of spirits in modernity in a particular historical context: the second half of XIX century in France and the foundational years of spiritism. Specifically, it addresses how its founder, Allan Kardec (pseudonym of Hyppolite L...