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THE CHALLENGES OF CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY 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. Gordana Jovanović is Professor of Psychology at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Serbia. She is committed to psychology understood as a human science closely related to other human sciences and philosophy. Her research is theoretically driven, epistemologically reflected and argues for the necessity of historical foundations and the critical responsibility of psychology. Lars Allolio- Näcke is manager and scientific coordinator at the Zentralinstitut “Anthropologie der Religion(en)” at Friedrich-A lexander Universität, Erlangen, Germany. His main interests include philosophy of subjectivity, historical anthropology, cultural psychology, psychology of religion, and philosophy of science. Carl Ratner has been developing a new theory and methodology for four decades under the title “macro cultural psychology.” Ratner emphasizes the political character of culture and psychology and uses it to develop social and psychological enrichment. Ratner has lived in and conducted research in China, India, and Saudi Arabia. THE CHALLENGES OF CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY Historical Legacies and Future Responsibilities Edited by Gordana Jovanovic’, Lars Allolio-N äcke, and Carl Ratner First published 2019 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2019 selection and editorial matter, Gordana Jovanović, Lars Allolio- Näcke and Carl Ratner; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Gordana Jovanović, Lars Allolio- Näcke and Carl Ratner to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing- in- Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data A catalog record has been requested for this book ISBN: 978-1 -1 38-6 7721- 0 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1 -1 38-6 7722- 7 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1 -3 15-5 5966- 7 (ebk) Typeset in Bembo by Out of House Publishing To the memory of Jerome Bruner, in recognition of his enduring search for a proper psychology of human beings CONTENTS Notes on contributors xi Introduction 1 Gordana Jovanovi ć PART 1 Cultural psychology as a human science 13 1 Cultural psychology as a human science 15 Gordana Jovanovi ć 2 Natureculture in a transformative worldview: Moving beyond the “interactionist consensus” 37 Anna Stetsenko PART 2 Reviving historical legacies for cultural psychology 57 3 Nature unveiling herself before science: The relationship between mind and culture in the perspective of Giambattista Vico 59 Luca Tateo viii Contents 4 Völkerpsychologie as cultural psychology: The place of culture in Wundt’s psychological project 75 Saulo de Freitas Araujo 5 Wilhelm Dilthey’s conception of a descriptive and comprehensive psychology 85 Hans- Ulrich Lessing 6 Ernst Cassirer’s cultural theory: Culture as symbolical practice 98 Jan Weyand PART 3 Vicissitudes of cultural psychology 109 7 Roots and rise of cultural psychology 111 Lars Allolio- Näcke 8 Culture and personality: A once and future research program? 125 Christian G. Allesch 9 Bruner’s lectures: Cultural psychology in statu nascendi 137 William R. Woodward 10 Ernst E. Boesch and his symbolic action theory 157 Lars Allolio- Näcke 11 The repression of cultural psychology in the history of psychology 169 Gordana Jovanovi ć PART 4 Epistemological challenges of cultural psychology 187 12 Contingent universals as the expression of a culture 189 Rom Harré and Jean- Pierre Llored 13 The place of culture in psychology: A social constructionist standpoint 207 Kenneth J. Gergen Contents ix 14 Light through a cultural lens: Decolonizing the history of psychology and resilience 220 Wade E. Pickren 15 Narrative psychology as cultural psychology 237 Csaba Pléh 16 Toward cultural (African) psychology: Links, challenges, and possibilities 250 Kopano Ratele PART 5 Cultural psychology of self, body, culture and society 269 17 The self in Japanese culture from an embodied perspective 271 Shogo Tanaka 18 The moving body 284 Elisa Krause- Kjær, Jensine I. Nedergaard, and Jaan Valsiner 19 Toward a Vygotskian analysis of emotions: Theoretical and methodological bases for a critical social psychology 301 Gisele Toassa 20 Aesthetics and cultural psychology 318 Christian G. Allesch 21 Let one person’s tears not be infectious: Efik proverbs as emotion regulation exemplars 337 Vivian Dzokoto, Eyo Mensah, Eunsoo Choi, and Melissa Washington- Nortey 22 Cultural- historical hyperobjects 357 Cathrine Hasse 23 The genesis of macro cultural psychology’s culture theory from traditional cultural psychology 368 Carl Ratner
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