"Volkerpsychologie" played an important role in establishing the
social sciences via the works of such scholars as Georg Simmel,
Emile Durkheim, Ernest Renan, Franz Boas, and Werner Sombart. In
Germany, the intellectual history of "folk psychology" was
represented by Moritz Lazarus, Heymann Steinthal, Wilhelm Wundt and
Willy Hellpach. This book follows the invention of the discipline
in the nineteenth century, its rise around the turn of the century
and its ultimate demise after the Second World War. In addition, it
shows that despite the repudiation of "folk psychology" and its
failed institutionalization, the discipline remains relevant as a
precursor of contemporary studies of "national identity."
Egbert Klautke is Lecturer in the Cultural History of Central
Europe in the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at
University College London. He is the author of "Unbegrenzte
Moglichkeiten: "Amerikanisierung" in Deutschland und Frankreich,
1900-1933" (2003).
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