The pleasure of thinking / Tania Zittoun.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zittoun, Tania, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thought and thinking.

Pleasure.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 269 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Summary:

Tania Zittoun demonstrates that there is pleasure in thinking, and that the pleasure of thinking plays a key role in our lives - in the development of children, in learning, in adult life, and in ageing. Drawing on arts and philosophy, exploring research in developmental psychology, cultural psychology, and psychoanalysis, it highlights five modalities of thinking: curiosity, the functional pleasure of pursuing a task, the pleasure of discovery, the dialogical pleasure of thinking with others, and a meta-pleasure. This book proposes a unique integrative model of thinking, conceived as a situated activity, following trajectories that combine modalities of pleasure. Evolving with time, the pleasure of thinking can take place as we reason, make sense, or daydream, at school, at work, when we garden, or do science. Academics and graduate students in sociocultural, critical, developmental, and cognitive psychology will benefit from The Pleasure of Thinking.

Contents:

The pleasure of thought

On the emergence of pleasurable thinking

Thinking the pleasures with psychoanalysis

Thinking in sociocultural psychology

Thinking through the psyche

The pleasure of thinking in diverse experiences

Trajectories of pleasures in thinking

Thinking forward.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2023).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781009039802 (ebook)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.