General Human Psychology
Published on 6. December 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
XVI, 321 pages
978-3-030-75853-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"Valsiner's proposal for a new general psychology which grounds its foundation in semiotics and develops within an epistemological dynamic, integrational and dialogue-based framework is intriguing and challenging. Aspiring to move within fragmentations and towards such a theoretical synthesis, along with the adoption of a methodology allowing the creation of adequate methods and a research evaluation process, could represent the evolutionary change that has not been observed in psychology for too long." (Raffaele Modugno, Human Arenas, Vol. 5 (4), 2022)More details
Series
Edition
2021 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
26 s/w Abbildungen, 99 farbige Abbildungen
XVI, 321 p. 125 illus., 99 illus. in color.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
517 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-030-75853-0 (9783030758530)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-75851-6
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Person
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.
Content
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.