Ivana Marková was born in Czechoslovakia and is now Professor Emeritus in Psychology at the University of Stirling, UK. Previous books include The Making of Modern Social Psychology (with Serge Moscovici, Polity Press, 2006), Dialogicality and Social Representations (Cambridge University Press, 2003), and The Dialogical Mind: Common Sense and Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2016). She is a Fellow of the British Academy, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and the British Psychological Society.

'In 'The making of a dialogical theory', Ivana Marková just demonstrated, what such a new dialogical social science, deployed with maestria, can do.' Tania Zittoun, Culture & Psychology

• Part I: 1. Socio-political Sources of the Theory of Social Representations; 2. A Political Refugee in Paris; 3. The 'Age of Intellectual Innocence' in Psychoanalysis 1961; 4. The Durkheimian in Psychoanalysis 1976; 5. The 'Great Smoky Dragon'; 6. Pseudo-dialogues and Building Bridges; Part II: 7. Social Representations and Common Sense; 8. Meanings and Knowledge as Semiotic Processes; 9. They 'Made Flowers Grow Where It Seemed Impossible'; 10. Social Representations as Unique Phenomena: Dynamics and Complexity; 11. Social Theories as Dialogues; Afterword; References; Index.

Ivana Marková was born in Czechoslovakia and is now Professor Emeritus in Psychology at the University of Stirling, UK. Previous books include The Making of Modern Social Psychology (with Serge Moscovici, Polity Press, 2006), Dialogicality and Social Representations (Cambridge University Press, 2003), and The Dialogical Mind: Common Sense and Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2016). She is a Fellow of the British Academy, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and the British Psychological Society.

'In 'The making of a dialogical theory', Ivana Marková just demonstrated, what such a new dialogical social science, deployed with maestria, can do.' Tania Zittoun, Culture & Psychology

• Part I: 1. Socio-political Sources of the Theory of Social Representations; 2. A Political Refugee in Paris; 3. The 'Age of Intellectual Innocence' in Psychoanalysis 1961; 4. The Durkheimian in Psychoanalysis 1976; 5. The 'Great Smoky Dragon'; 6. Pseudo-dialogues and Building Bridges; Part II: 7. Social Representations and Common Sense; 8. Meanings and Knowledge as Semiotic Processes; 9. They 'Made Flowers Grow Where It Seemed Impossible'; 10. Social Representations as Unique Phenomena: Dynamics and Complexity; 11. Social Theories as Dialogues; Afterword; References; Index.

Ivana Marková was born in Czechoslovakia and is now Professor Emeritus in Psychology at the University of Stirling, UK. Previous books include The Making of Modern Social Psychology (with Serge Moscovici, Polity Press, 2006), Dialogicality and Social Representations (Cambridge University Press, 2003), and The Dialogical Mind: Common Sense and Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2016). She is a Fellow of the British Academy, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and the British Psychological Society.

'In 'The making of a dialogical theory', Ivana Marková just demonstrated, what such a new dialogical social science, deployed with maestria, can do.' Tania Zittoun, Culture & Psychology

• Part I: 1. Socio-political Sources of the Theory of Social Representations; 2. A Political Refugee in Paris; 3. The 'Age of Intellectual Innocence' in Psychoanalysis 1961; 4. The Durkheimian in Psychoanalysis 1976; 5. The 'Great Smoky Dragon'; 6. Pseudo-dialogues and Building Bridges; Part II: 7. Social Representations and Common Sense; 8. Meanings and Knowledge as Semiotic Processes; 9. They 'Made Flowers Grow Where It Seemed Impossible'; 10. Social Representations as Unique Phenomena: Dynamics and Complexity; 11. Social Theories as Dialogues; Afterword; References; Index.