Cultural Foundations of Political PsychologyRoutledge, 6 лют. 2018 р. - 312 стор. Over the centuries all of the great philosophers made psychology central to understanding social life. Indeed, the ancient Greeks thought it impossible to conceive of political life without insight into the human soul. Yet insuffficient professional legitimization attaches to the central importance of modern depth psychology in understanding politics. Cultural Foundations of Political Psychology explores the linkages between psychology and politics, focusing on how rival conceptions of the good life and unspoken moral purposes in the social sciences have led to sectarian intolerance. Roazen has always approached the history of psychoanalysis with the conviction that ethical issues are implicit in every clinical encounter. Thus, his opening chapter on Erich Fromm's exclusion from the International Psychoanalytic Association touches on a host of political matters, including collaboration as opposed to resistance to Nazi tyranny. Roazen also brings a public/private perspective to such well-known episodes as the Hiss/Chambers case, the circumstances of Virginia Woolf's madness and suicide, and the matter of CIA funding of the monthly Encounter. He deals with the reaction to psychoanalysis on the part of three major philosophers--Althusser, Wittgenstein, and Buber--and looks at the link between psychology and politics in the work of such political theorists as Machiavelli, Rousseau, Burke, Tocqueville, Berlin, and Arendt. A chapter grappling with Vietnam and the Cold War illustrates how political psychology should be concerned with questions of an ethical or "ought" character. In examining the social and psychological bases for political theorizing, Roazen shows how both psychology and politics must change and redefine their methodologies as a result of their interaction. Roazen concludes with a chapter on how political psychology must deal with issues posed by changing conceptions of femininity. This volume is a pioneering exploration of the intersection of psychology and politics. |
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... social life . Indeed , the ancient Greeks thought it impossible to conceive of political life without insight into the human soul . Yet insuffficient professional legitimization attaches to the cen- tral importance of modern depth ...
... social life . At various times throughout this past century , the possible interconnec- tions between psychology and politics have seemed of key importance . But when someone like Wilhelm Reich , for example , proposed the subject of ...
... social scientists . We seem to live in a time that demands immediate intellectual pay - offs , and so trying to solve even the most intractable - seeming political issues , such as the Arab - Israeli conflict , appears to be a tempting ...
... social science theorizing for that matter , was characteristic of mainline British political theorists . Berlin and I scarcely ever engaged in any give - and - take when it came to Freud . He gave me some analogies in the history of ...
... social fashions that have not often enough been critically examined . With chapter 4 , I try to deal with the fate of psychologizing in twentieth- century America , in contrast to what has been the case in other countries within the Old ...
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Notes on Leonard and Virginia Woolf | 45 |
Tragedy in America | 61 |
The Old Encounter | 71 |
Three Philosophers Analyze Freud Wittgenstein Althusser and Ruber | 85 |
Theorists | 97 |
Vietnam and the Cold War | 125 |
Methodology | 149 |
Hannah Arendt | 181 |
Geoffrey Gorer | 205 |
Biography | 215 |
Affairs of State | 239 |
The Psychology of Women | 257 |
Index | 273 |
On Intellectuals and Exile | 139 |