From Metaphysics to Culture

Sven Hroar Klempe (Mag.art., Dr.art.) is Professor emeritus in Psychology at the Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway. His background includes Professor in Musicology, Assoc. Prof. in Media Studies, teacher and journalist. His research is cross-disciplinary with an emphasis on the history of psychology, culture and psychology, theory of science, communication and music psychology.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. From Numbers to Sensation.- Chapter 3. Psychology Consolidates Itself in Metaphysics.- Chapter 4. Empirical Psychology is Banned from Metaphysics –Immanuel Kant.- Chapter 5. Mathematics and Music as Fundamental Processes of the Mind – Johann Friedrich Herbart.- Chapter 6. Psychology at the Core of Existence – Søren Kierkegaard.- Chapter 7. Music as the Direct Factor – Gustav Theodor Fechner.- Chapter 8. Wilhelm Wundt and Experimental Psychology.- Chapter 9. The Cultural Psychology of Wilhelm Wundt.