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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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195591

Psychology from the standpoint of the subject

selected writings

Klaus Holzkamp

edited byErnst SchraubeUte Osterkamp

Abstract

This book introduces the groundbreaking work of the German critical psychologist Klaus Holzkamp. In contrast to contemporary psychology's worldlessness, the writings present a concept of psychology based on the individual's relations to the world and open up new perspectives on human subjectivity, agency and the conduct of everyday life.

Details | Table of Contents

Introduction

Klaus Holzkamp and the development of psychology from the standpoint of the subject

Ute OsterkampErnst Schraube

pp.1-15

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137296436_1
Missing the point

variable psychology's blindness to the problem's inherent coherences

Klaus Holzkamp

pp.60-74

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137296436_5
Personality

a functional analysis of the concept

Klaus Holzkamp

pp.77-86

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137296436_6
Practice

a functional analysis of the concept

Klaus Holzkamp

pp.87-111

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137296436_7
The concept of anti-racist education

a critical analysis of its function and an outline of a subject science alternative

Klaus Holzkamp

pp.153-171

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137296436_10
The colonization of childhood

psychological and psychoanalytical explanations of human development

Klaus Holzkamp

pp.210-230

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137296436_12
Psychology

social self-understanding on the reasons for action in the conduct of everyday life

Klaus Holzkamp

pp.233-341

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137296436_13

Publication details

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Place: Basingstoke

Year: 2013

Pages: 360

Series: Critical Theory and Practice in Psychology and the Human Sciences

ISBN (hardback): 978-1-349-36739-9

ISBN (digital): 978-1-137-29643-6

Full citation:

Holzkamp Klaus (2013) Psychology from the standpoint of the subject: selected writings, ed. Schraube Ernst; Osterkamp Ute. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.