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Naming the Mind: How Psychology Found Its Language - Softcover

Danziger, Kurt

 
9780803977631: Naming the Mind: How Psychology Found Its Language
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0803977638 ISBN 13: 9780803977631
Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1997

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Intelligence, motivation, personality, learning, stimulation, behaviour and attitude are just some of the categories that map the terrain of `psychological reality'. These are the concepts which, among others, underpin theoretical and empirical work in modern psychology - and yet these concepts have only recently taken on their contemporary meanings.

This fascinating work is a persuasive explanation of how modern psychology found its language. Kurt Danziger develops an account that goes beyond the taken-for-granted quality of psychological discourse to offer a profound and broad-ranging analysis of the recent evolution of the concepts and categories on which it depends. Danziger explores this process and shows how its conse

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Kurt Danziger is Professor Emeritus at York University, Toronto and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Constructing the Subject (1990) is his most recently published book.

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This fascinating work is a persuasive explanation of how modern psychology found its language. Kurt Danziger develops an account that goes beyond the taken-for-granted quality of psychological discourse to offer a profound and broad-ranging analysis of the recent evolution of the concepts and categories on which it depends. Danziger explores this process and shows how its consequences depend on cultural contexts and the history of an emergent discipline.

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Verlag
SAGE Publications Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
1997
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0803977638
ISBN 13 
9780803977631
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
224
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