Nothingness

Philosophical Insights into Psychology

Jytte Bang (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

308 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-4128-6271-4 (ISBN)

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This book addresses nothingness as not only the intangible presence of an emotional, cultural, social, or even political void that is felt on an existential level, but has some solid foundations in reality. The death of a loved one, the social isolation of an individual, or the culture shock one may experience in another country are examples of situations in which an external sense of absence mirrors an internal psychological and philosophical sense of nothingness.

Not much has been explicitly written on nothingness in the history of psychology. On the other hand, nothingness seems to be implicitly embedded in many scholars' work. This duality of explicitly and implicitly expressed ideas about nothingness reveals how psychology finds inspiration in philosophy, and vice versa. The book aims to illustrate how the concept of the presence of absence—nothingness—fills a void in contemporary psychological theorizing.

Jytte Bang is associate professor of psychology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She is interested in developmental psychology and developmental science with a focus on ecological and cultural-historical perspectives. Ditte Winther-Lindqvist is associate professor of psychology at Aarhus University, Denmark. She is a scholar occupied with phenomena central to the development of children and young people from a point of view of lived experience. Jaan Valsiner is editor of Transaction's History and Theory of Psychology series.

Contents

Series Editor's Foreword, Jaan Valsiner

1 Nothingness—Philosophical Insights into Psychology
Jytte Bang and Ditte Winther-Lindqvist

2 Is Future Perception Possible?
Tetsuya Kono

3 The Color of Nothingness
Simo Koppe

4 The Nothingness of Developmental Situations
Jytte Bang

5 Nothingness as the Dark Side of Social Representations
Alicia Barreiro and Jose Antonio Castorina

6 The Gift of a Rock: A Case Study in the Emergence and Dissolution of Meaning
Alex Gillespie and Tania Zittoun

7 The Nothing That Is: Making Meaning Out of Nothing at All
Seth Surgan and Emily Abbey

8 Nothingness and the Forgotten: A Post-human Thought Experiment
Tine Jensen

9 Time Together—Time Apart: Nothingness and Hope in Teenager
Ditte Winther-Lindqvist

10 Nothingness: Imprisoned in Existence—Excluded From Society
Charlotte Mathiassen

11 When Links Are Missing: Children and Post Divorce Family Life
Anja Marschall

12 Silent Nothings: Undisciplined Language
Lisa A. Mazzei

13 Is There No Sense in Nonsense? Co-transforming the Apparently Nonsensical
Niklas A. Chimirri

14 Numbers: User-Driven Standards and Manageable Nothingness
Morten Nissen and Katrine Barington

Contributors

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	06.05.2016
Reihe/Serie	History and Theory of Psychology
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	476 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
ISBN-10	1-4128-6271-X / 141286271X
ISBN-13	978-1-4128-6271-4 / 9781412862714
Zustand	Neuware