Expanding the Category "Human"

Nonhumanism, Posthumanism, and Humanistic Psychology

Patrick M. Whitehead (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

182 Seiten

2019
Lexington Books (Verlag)
9781498559379 (ISBN)

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In Expanding the Category "Human": Nonhumanism, Posthumanism, and Humanistic Psychology Patrick Whitehead argues that humanistic psychology must continue its sixty-year-old project of openness of inquiry and acceptance of human beings in order to stay relevant in this ever changing world.

The climate within the discipline of psychology has changed considerably since the middle of the twentieth century. More specifically, what it means to be a human has changed. In Expanding the Category “Human”: Nonhumanism, Posthumanism, and Humanistic Psychology, Patrick M. Whitehead argues that the metaphysical problems that psychologists faced sixty years ago are not the same ones they face today. Humanistic psychologists could once choose to protect the integrity of human beings as well as to engage in open inquiry and accept all human beings, but Whitehead contends that a choice between the two must now be made. This book is recommended for scholars and practitioners of psychology and philosophy.

Patrick M. Whitehead is assistant professor of psychology at Albany State University.

Preface Introduction Chapter 1: The Cult of Humanism in Psychology Chapter 2: Problem One: Nature’s DivisionsChapter 3: The Importance of Resolving this Division for Humanistic Ecopsychology Chapter 4: Problem Two: Rejecting Non-Subjective forms of Inquiry Chapter 5: Subjectivity as a Nonhuman Attribute: All Nature as Flesh Chapter 6: Problem Three: Rejecting Posthuman Possibilities Chapter 7: Recognizing how Technology has Shaped Human Being: Towards a Post-Humanisitc Psychology Chapter 8: The Radical Edge: Object-Oriented Psychology or, the Psychology of Things References
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Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Sprache	englisch
Maße	154 x 229 mm
Gewicht	277 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Humanistische Psychotherapien
ISBN-13	9781498559379 / 9781498559379
Zustand	Neuware