Title The critique of psychology : from Kant to postcolonial theory / Thomas Teo

Published New York : Springer, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 239 pages) Series Library of the history of psychological theories Library of the history of psychological theories. Contents Chapter 1 On the Historiography of the Critique of Psychology 1 -- Chapter 2 Metatheory and the Critique of Psychology 19 -- Psychological Perspectives 20 -- Psychology as a Problematic Science 32 -- Chapter 3 Kant and Early 19th Century Critics of Psychology 39 -- Kant's Critique of Rational and Empirical Psychology 41 -- Early 19th Century Critics of Psychology 51 -- Chapter 4 The Natural-Scientific Critique 59 -- Lange's Critique of Psychology 60 -- The Problem of Speculation 68 -- Controversies in Natural-Scientific Psychology 72 -- Chapter 5 The Human-Scientific Critique 77 -- Dilthey's Rejection of Natural-Scientific Psychology 78 -- The German-Speaking Context 85 -- The English-Speaking Tradition 89 -- Chapter 6 The Marxist Critique 93 -- Karl Marx's Critique of Philosophical Psychology 94 -- Vygotsky's Critique of Psychology 98 -- Holzkamp's Critique of Traditional Psychology 101 -- French Reflections 110 -- Chapter 7 The Feminist Critique 113 -- The Feminist Critique of Science 117 -- Critique of the Psychological Subject Matter and Its Relevance 121 -- Challenges to Subject Matter, Relevance, and Methodology 124 -- Reflections on Methodology 129 -- Chapter 8 The Postmodern Critique 135 -- The End of Metanarratives 138 -- The Problem of Knowledge 140 -- Subject and Power 142 -- Ethics 148 -- Aesthetics and "Liberation" 150 -- Chapter 9 The Postcolonial Critique 155 -- The Problem of Ontology 158 -- The Epistemological Argument 162 -- Scientific Racism 164 -- Hidden Neo-Colonial Thinking 165 -- The Problem with Problematization 172 -- An Example of a Postcolonial Psychology 177 -- Chapter 10 Reflections on the Ethical-Political Character of Psychology 181 -- Models for the Science-Politics Relationship 183 -- Evaluative Scenarios for the Science-Politics Relationship 184 -- Facts and Decisions in the Human and Natural Science and Political Affordances 188 -- Truth, Politics and an Ethical-Political Psychology 189 Summary Teo describes two centuries of challenges to mainstream psychological thinking along with the mainstream's reactions Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-226)-and indexes In Springer e-books Subject Psychology -- History Psychology and philosophy. Psychology -- history PSYCHOLOGY -- History. Psychology -- History. Psychology. History of Psychology. Psychology Psychology and philosophy Psychologie. Kritiek (filosofie) Genre/Form History History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780387253565 0387253564 9780387253558 0387253556

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