Psychologization and the Subject of Late Modernity (Hardcover)

Jan De Vos starts where other critiques on psychology end, presenting the argument that psychology is psychologization.This fresh and pioneering approach asks what it means to become the psychologist of one's own life. If something is not working in our education, in our marriage, in our work and in society in general we turn to the psy-sciences. But is the latter's paradigm precisely not relying on feeding psychological theories into the field of research and action?This book traces psychologization from the Enlightenment to Late-Modernity, engaging with seminal thinkers such as La Mettrie, Husserl, Lasch and Agamben, whereby Jan De Vos teases out the possibilities and the limits of using psychoanalytic theory as a critical tool. Offering challenging and thought-provoking insights into how the modern human came to adopt a psychological gaze on itself and the world, this book will appeal to psychologists, sociologists and studies of culture.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2013
First published:	2013
Authors:	Jan De Vos
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards / With dust jacket
Pages:	189
ISBN-13:	978-0-230-30846-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social theory Books > Social sciences > Psychology > The self, ego, identity, personality Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > History of ideas, intellectual history Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Philosophy of mind Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Philosophy of mind
LSN:	0-230-30846-5
Barcode:	9780230308466

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