ABSTRACT
This book considers cultural psychology from historical, theoretical, and epistemological perspectives, building an understanding of cultural psychology as a human science and moving beyond the nature-culture dichotomy. The unique collection of chapters seeks to advance the field of cultural psychology by reviving its historical legacies and arguing for its social responsibility in future historical developments.
It considers European legacies for cultural psychology as developed by leading figures such as Giambattista Vico, Wilhelm Wundt, Wilhelm Dilthey, and Ernst Cassirer in order to provide insights into a long tradition of thinking from a cultural psychology perspective. The book discusses historical pathways in the rise and repression of cultural psychology and its different historical forms, arguing for the necessity of decolonizing psychology, securing a place for culture in it, and developing an epistemology suited to humankind’s meaning-making processes in mutual shaping of psyche and culture. It provides an integrative and historical understanding of the subject and uses the diversity and heterogeneity within the field to offer critical reflections on its achievements. The thoroughly international group of contributors brings diverse analyses of self, body, emotions, culture, and society and considers the future of cultural psychology.
The volume is a stimulating read for scholars and students of cultural and theoretical psychology and related areas including philosophy, anthropology, and history.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Cultural psychology as a human science
chapter 2|20 pages
Natureculture in a transformative worldview
part |2 pages
Reviving historical legacies for cultural psychology
chapter 3|16 pages
Nature unveiling herself before science
chapter 4|10 pages
Völkerpsychologie as cultural psychology
part |2 pages
Vicissitudes of cultural psychology
part |2 pages
Epistemological challenges of cultural psychology
chapter 14|17 pages
Light through a cultural lens
part |2 pages
Cultural psychology of self, body, culture and society
chapter 19|17 pages
Toward a Vygotskian analysis of emotions
chapter 21|20 pages
Let one person’s tears not be infectious
part |2 pages
Thinking with cultural psychology about the future