Valsiner General Human Psychology

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-3-030-75851-6
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 321 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Theory and History in the Human and Social Sciences

The book includes a new theoretical synthesis of William Stern’s classic personology published in the 1930s with contemporary cultural psychology of semiotic mediation developed by the author over the last two decades. It looks at the human mind as it operates in its full complexity, starting from the most complex general levels of aesthetic and political participation in society and ending with individual willful actions in everyday life contexts.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Valsiner, Jaan

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Constructing and Destroying One’s Life: Phenomenology of the human life course.- 2. Signs in Minds: Semiotic basis for the New General Psychology.- 3. Mediating Mind: Making values.- 4. Silent screaming: Voices within the Self.- 5. Disquieting societies.- 6. Constructing loyalties: Dialogues between rights and duties.- 7. Masked morality: Theatrical reality of living.- 8. Monuments and memory:  Imagination amplified and objectified.- 9. Political Sentiments: Escalation and resistance.- 10. Desires for Beauty: Aesthetics of human existence.- 11. From Wanting to Acting: Active desire for meaningful living.- 12. How to investigate complex personological processes.- 13. Final Conclusions: General  Structure of Cultural Personology.

Über Autor(innen)

Jaan Valsiner  is a cultural psychologist with a consistently developmental axiomatic base that is brought to analyses of any psychological or social phenomena. He is the founding editor (1995) of the Sage journal, Culture & Psychology. And Editor-in-Chief of Springer’s  Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science . He has been Niels Bohr Professor of Cultural Psychology at Aalborg University, Denmark in 2013-2018 and  Professeur invitee  at University of Luxembourg (2013-2019).  He has published and edited around 50 books, the most pertinent of which are his monographs  The guided mind  (Cambridge, Ma.: Harvard University Press, 1998),   Culture in minds and societies  (New Delhi: Sage, 2007), and  Ornamented Lives  (Charlotte NC: Information Age, 2019).  He has been awarded the  Alexander von Humboldt  Prize of 1995 in Germany, and the  Hans-Kilian-Preis  of 2017, for his interdisciplinary work on human development, as well as Senior Fulbright Lecturing Award in Brazil 1995-1997. He has been a visiting professor in Brazil, Japan, Australia, Estonia. Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.