Editors:
- Collates evaluations of Rom Harré’s theoretical contributions into a single volume
- Assesses Rom Harré’s positioning theory and its lasting influence on current cultural and social psychology
- Presents appraisals from distinguished researchers and members of the international cognitive and discursive psychology community
Part of the book series: Theory and History in the Human and Social Sciences (THHSS)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Psychology as a Normative Science
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Front Matter
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Wittgenstein and Psychology
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Front Matter
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About this book
Rom Harré’s career spans more than 40 years of original contributions to the development of both psychology and other human and social sciences. Recognized as a founder of modern social psychology, he developed the microsociological approach ‘ethogenics’ and facilitated the discursive turn within psychology, as well as developed the concept of positioning theory. Used within both philosophy and social scientific approaches aimed at conflict analysis, analyses of power relations, and narrative structures, the development and impact of positioning theory can be understood as part of a second cognitive revolution. Whereas the first cognitive revolution involved incorporating cognition as both thoughts and feelings as an ineliminable part of psychology and social sciences, this second revolution released this cognition from a focus on individuals, and towards a focus of understanding individuals as participating in public practices using public discourses as part of their cognition. This edited volume adds to the scholarly conversation around positioning theory, evaluates Rom Harré’s significance for the history and development of psychology, and highlights his numerous theoretical contributions and their lasting effects on the psychological and social sciences.
Included among the chapters:
- What is it to be a human being? Rom Harré on self and identity
- The social philosophy of Harré as a philosophy of culture
- The discursive ontology of the social world
- Ethics in socio-cultural psychologies
- Discursive cognition and neural networks
The Second Cognitive Revolution: A Tribute to Rom Harré is an indispensable reader for anyone interested in his cognitive-historical turn, and finds an audience with academics and researchers in the social and human science fields of cognitive psychology, social psychology, discursive psychology, philosophy, sociology, and ethnomethodology.
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Communication and Psychology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
Bo Allesøe Christensen
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Second Cognitive Revolution
Book Subtitle: A Tribute to Rom Harré
Editors: Bo Allesøe Christensen
Series Title: Theory and History in the Human and Social Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26680-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-26679-0Published: 05 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-26682-0Published: 05 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-26680-6Published: 17 October 2019
Series ISSN: 2523-8663
Series E-ISSN: 2523-8671
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 194
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cognitive Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology, History of Psychology, Aesthetics, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Ontology