Kategoria BISAC: Philosophy >> Social

At its core, psychology is about persons: their thinking, their problems, the improvement of their lives. The understanding of persons is crucial to the discipline. But according to this provocative new book, between current essentialist theories that rely on biological models, and constructionist approaches based on sociocultural experience, the concept of the person has all but vanished from psychology.

Persons: Understanding Psychological Selfhood and Agency recasts theories of mind, behavior, and self, synthesizing a range of psychologists and philosophers to restore the...

What is education? This volume thinks through this question from a range of perspectives unique perspectives. Revealing the contentions and possibilities of a new engagement with the question of education, it will give you new insights into education: what it is, what it is not, and what is to be done about it.

At a time when education is so important as to be considered an essential human right, yet is under attack from funding cuts, this book will open the thinking on education onto new and important territory.

Through the pathbreaking thought of Derrida, Balibar builds a topography of cruelty converted into extremism by ideology, juxtaposing its subjective forms (identity delusions, the desire for...

Sociologists and social theorists use the term social frequently. We talk of social relations, social media, social networks, social factors, and so on, as well as the social . But do we always know what we mean or what we are invoking when we deploy the term social ?

The concept of the social has often been treated as almost self-explanatory, inherited from the works of the instigators of sociology and social theory who, it is assumed, all meant the same thing by the term. Rethinking the Social argues that this is not the case, and that there are major differences between their...

Sociologists and social theorists use the term social frequently. We talk of social relations, social media, social networks, social factors, and so on, as well as the social . But do we always know what we mean or what we are invoking when we deploy the term social ?

The concept of the social has often been treated as almost self-explanatory, inherited from the works of the instigators of sociology and social theory who, it is assumed, all meant the same thing by the term. Rethinking the Social argues that this is not the case, and that there are major differences between their...

This collection gets to the heart of Mead's meditations on social psychology and social philosophy. Its penetrating, conversational tone transports the reader directly into Mead's classroom as he teases out the genesis of the self and...

The Decision Trap questions a dogma of our time: the assumption that genetic education empowers citizens and increases their autonomy. It argues that professional instructions about genes, genetic risks, and genetic test options convey a genetic worldview which destroys self-confidence and makes clients dependent on genetic experts and technologies. Part one of the book introduces the reader to the idea of genetic education. It clarifies the notion of the "gene" as it is commonly understood, and shows that, scientifically, the concept of genes as definable, causal agents is outdated. Part...

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In 1869, at the age of twenty-four, the precociously brilliant Friedrich Nietzsche was appointed to a professorship of classical philology at the University of Basel. He seemed marked for a successful and conventional academic career. Then the philosophy of Schopenhauer and the music of Wagner transformed his ambitions. The genius of such thinkers and makers--the kind of genius that had emerged in ancient Greece--this alone was the touchstone for true understanding. But how was education to serve genius, especially in a modern society marked more and...