Concrete human psychology / Wolff-Michael Roth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roth, Wolff-Michael, 1953- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychology--Philosophy.

Psychology.

Dialectical materialism--Psychological aspects.

Dialectical materialism.

Vygotskiĭ, L. S. (Lev Semenovich), 1896-1934.

Vygotskiĭ, L. S.

Psychological aspects.

Physical Description:

xv, 231 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.

Summary:

Psychology, quantitative or qualitative, tends to conceive of the human person using metaphysical concepts and to separate the practical, affective, and intellectual aspects of participation in everyday life. Lev S. Vygotsky, however, was working towards a "concrete human psychology," a goal that he expresses in a small, unfinished text of the same name. This book articulates the foundation of and develops such a concrete human psychology according to which all higher psychological functions are relations between persons before being functions, and according to which personality is the ensemble of societal relations with others that a person has lived and experienced. Correlated with concern for the concreteness of human life and the psychology that theorizes it is the idea that to live means to change. However, none of the categories we currently have in psychology are categories of change as such. In this work of concrete human psychology, categories are developed on the basis of Vygotsky's work that are suitable to theorize an ever-changing life, including the language humans use to take control over their conditions and to talk about the conditions in which they live. hat are suitable to theorize an ever-changing life, including the language humans use to take control over their conditions and to talk about the conditions in which they live.

Contents:

1 On Method 2

Part I Grounding Psychology 11

2 Psychology From First Principles 15

3 Language and Activity 29

Part II Dynamics of Thinking, Speaking, and Language 49

4 The Birth of Thought 53

5 Language Alive 69

6 From Word-Meaning to Language-Game 89

7 The Real Life of Language 103

Part III Learning and Development 119

8 Anthropology of Higher Psychological Functions 125

9 From Work to Representation 141

10 Knowing and Learning at Work 161

11 Personhood in Practice 178

12 The Documentary Method or the Concrete General 198

Epilogue 211

13 Relational Epistemology 213.

Notes:

"A Psychology Press book"

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138833098

1138833096

9781138833104

113883310X

OCLC:

905344171