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This book considers cultural psychology from historical, theoretical, and epistemological perspectives, building an understanding of cultural psychology as a human science and moving beyond the nature-culture dichotomy. The unique collection of chapters seeks to advance the field of cultural psychology by reviving its historical legacies and arguing for its social responsibility in future historical developments.It considers European legacies for cultural psychology as developed by leading figures such as Giambattista Vico, Wilhelm Wundt, Wilhelm Dilthey, and Ernst Cassirer in order to provide insights into a long tradition of thinking from a cultural psychology perspective. The book discusses historical pathways in the rise and repression of cultural psychology and its different historical forms, arguing for the necessity of decolonizing psychology, securing a place for culture in it, and developing an epistemology suited to humankind’s meaning-making processes in mutual shaping of psyche and culture. It provides an integrative and historical understanding of the subject and uses the diversity and heterogeneity within the field to offer critical reflections on its achievements. The thoroughly international group of contributors brings diverse analyses of self, body, emotions, culture, and society and considers the future of cultural psychology. The volume is a stimulating read for scholars and students of cultural and theoretical psychology and related areas including philosophy, anthropology, and history.

This book considers cultural psychology from historical, theoretical, and epistemological perspectives, building an understanding of cultural psychology as a human science and moving beyond the nature-culture dichotomy. The unique collection of chapters seeks to advance the field of cultural psychology by reviving its historical legacies and arguing for its social responsibility in future historical developments.It considers European legacies for cultural psychology as developed by leading figures such as Giambattista Vico, Wilhelm Wundt, Wilhelm Dilthey, and Ernst Cassirer in order to provide insights into a long tradition of thinking from a cultural psychology perspective. The book discusses historical pathways in the rise and repression of cultural psychology and its different historical forms, arguing for the necessity of decolonizing psychology, securing a place for culture in it, and developing an epistemology suited to humankind’s meaning-making processes in mutual shaping of psyche and culture. It provides an integrative and historical understanding of the subject and uses the diversity and heterogeneity within the field to offer critical reflections on its achievements. The thoroughly international group of contributors brings diverse analyses of self, body, emotions, culture, and society and considers the future of cultural psychology. The volume is a stimulating read for scholars and students of cultural and theoretical psychology and related areas including philosophy, anthropology, and history.

Research into the Hebrew Bible, Ancient Near East, Philosophy and History have long considered whether thought in the cultural area of the ancient Middle East differs from that in the western Mediterranean. The inclusion of neurobiology, psychology, brain research and evolutionary research will widen this horizon and allow new approaches. This volume provides in depth insides into this Archaeology of Mind in 22 contributions.

Das Einführungsbuch stellt den aktuellen Stand der Kulturpsychologie bezüglichtheoretischer Ansätze und Methoden in der Breite dar. Es wird zudem aufgezeigt, wie stark sie in verschiedenen Handlungsfeldern verankert ist. Die Kulturpsychologie ist ein interdisziplinäres Forschungsgebiet, das weniger darauf abzielt, menschliches Verhalten und Erleben objektiv und kausal zu erklären, sondern vielmehr bestrebt ist, psychische Phänomene im jeweiligen soziokulturellen Kontext zu verstehen. Hierbei folgt sie einem theoretischen Grundverständnis, den Menschen als aktiv handelndes Wesen aufzufassen. Sie betont damit im Vergleich zur vorherrschenden nomothetisch ausgerichteten Psychologie andere theoretische und methodische Zugänge  und stellt insbesondere Intentionalität, Bedeutungsstrukturiertheit und nicht zuletzt Kulturalität menschlicher Existenz heraus. Die Kulturpsychologie bezieht sowohl hermeneutische Ansätze in Psychologie, Philosophie, Soziologie und Ethnologie als auch qualitative Methoden zur Erforschung menschlichen Handelns und Erlebens ein.