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Naming the Mind Kurt Danziger

Naming the Mind By Kurt Danziger

Naming the Mind by Kurt Danziger


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In this work, the author explains how modern psychology found its language by examining the historically changing structure of psychological discourse and offering an analysis of the recent evolution of the concepts and categories on which the quality of psychological discourse depends.

Naming the Mind Summary

Naming the Mind: How Psychology Found Its Language by Kurt Danziger

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 consequences depend on cultural contexts and the history of an emergent discipline.

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`I wish I had it in my power to make this book by Kurt Danziger required reading for any psychologist who teaches or contemplates teaching a course in the history of the field. Why? Because it eloquently challenges the current view that the category language of the 20th-century American psychology reflects a natural and universal order of psychological phenomena. In Naming the Mind: How Psychology Found Its Language, Danziger shows very convincingly what is wrong with that picture -Theory & Psychology

`Naming the Mind consolidates a vast body of scholarship on psychological language and offers a persuasive model for appreciating the dynamic play and implications of this expert language....For those researchers concerned with psychologys language, Naming the Mind is a smart read - Feminism & Psychology

About Kurt Danziger

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.

Table of Contents

Naming the Mind The Ancients The Great Transformation The Physiological Background Putting Intelligence on the Map Behaviour and Learning Motivation and Personality Attitudes Metalanguage The Technological Framework The Nature of Psychological Kinds

Additional information

NPB9780803977624
9780803977624
080397762X
Naming the Mind: How Psychology Found Its Language by Kurt Danziger
New
Hardback
Sage Publications Ltd
1997-02-10
224
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