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Psychology as the science of human being

the Yokohama manifesto

edited byJaan Valsiner Giuseppina Marsico Nandita ChaudharyVirgínia Dazzani

Abstract

This book brings together a group of scholars from around the world who view psychology as the science of human ways of being. Being refers to the process of existing - through construction of the human world – here, rather than to an ontological state. This collection includes work that has the goal to establish the newly developed area of cultural psychology as the science of specifically human ways of existence. It comes as a next step after the "behaviorist turn" that has dominated psychology over most of the 20th century, and like its successor in the form of "cognitivism", kept psychology away from addressing issues of specifically human ways of relating with their worlds. Such linking takes place through intentional human actions: through the creation of complex tools for living, entertainment, and work. Human beings construct tools to make other tools. Human beings invent religious systems, notions of economic rationality and legal systems; they enter into aesthetic enjoyment of various aspects of life in art, music, and literature; they have the capability of inventing national identities that can be summoned to legitimate one's killing of one's neighbors, or being killed oneself.

The contributions to this volume focus on the central goal of demonstrating that psychology as a science needs to start from the phenomena of higher psychological functions, and then look at how their lower counterparts are re-organized from above. That kind of investigation is inevitably interdisciplinary - it links psychology with anthropology, philosophy, sociology, history, and developmental biology. Various contributions to this volume are based on the work of Lev Vygotsky, George Herbert Mead, Henri Bergson, and on traditions of Ganzheitspsychologie and Gestalt psychology.

Psychology as the Science of Human Being is a valuable resource to psychologists, sociologists, philosophers, biologists, and anthropologists alike.​

Details | Table of Contents

Memory and creativity

historical and conceptual intersections

Brady Wagoner

pp.67-83

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21094-0_5
Affective semiosis

philosophical links to cultural psychology

Robert Innis

pp.87-104

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21094-0_6
The self rises up from lived experiences

a micro-semiotic analysis of the unfolding of trajectories of experience when performing ethics

Alberto Rosa

pp.105-127

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21094-0_7
Religion and religiosity as cultural phenomena

from ontological reductionism to acknowledgment of plurality

Jacob A. Belzen

pp.193-208

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21094-0_11
Otherness is everywhere to bring about your self

an inquiry into the whimsical emergence of children's selves

Koji Komatsu

pp.287-297

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21094-0_17
Exploring the workings of the psyche

metatheoretical and methodological foundations

Jana Uher

pp.299-324

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21094-0_18

Publication details

Publisher: Springer

Place: Dordrecht

Year: 2016

Pages: 375

ISBN (hardback): 978-3-319-21093-3

ISBN (digital): 978-3-319-21094-0

Full citation:

Valsiner Jaan, Marsico Giuseppina, Chaudhary Nandita, Dazzani Virgínia (2016) Psychology as the science of human being: the Yokohama manifesto. Dordrecht, Springer.