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The Americans by Hugo Munsterberg stands alongside Alexis de
Tocqueville's American Democracy as one of the great works on the
New World written by a scholar deeply familiar with the Old World.
When originally published, it gave the German public a sense of
American life, and was described as "a book which deals in a
detailed way with the political, economic, intellectual, and social
aspects of American culture." Munsterberg, a world-renowned
psychologist at the turn of the twentieth century, noted that "its
purpose is to interpret systematically the democratic ideals of
America." The primary aim of The Americans is to study the people
and America's inner tendencies. It offers a "philosophy of
Americanism," the ideology of a people writ whole. Munsterberg's
sense of the "spirit" of a people, rather than facts about the
people, is revealed in his four cardinal chapters: Self-Direction,
Self-Realization, Self-Perfection, and Self-Assertion. While he
covers the economic premises of the free market and the politics of
party affairs, he considers these the least important. Instead it
is the lasting forces and tendencies of American life, rather than
problems of the day, that occupy the author. This focus was shared
by German readers, for whom the book was conceived, and for those
in the United States who read the book in English. The dynamic of
strong basic tendencies of democratic forces and lesser, but
significant, aristocratic tendencies underwrites the strains and
tensions in American society. It also defines the special nature of
a book, written more than one hundred years ago, that retains its
lively sense of purpose and deep insight into American life. One
could well say that this book is required reading in this day and
age for Americans and Europeans alike. This is a neglected
masterpiece.
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imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
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Münsterberg's work on the emerging art of cinema remains a key document for film scholars, but it has long been out of print. In this new edition, Allan Langdale provides a critical introduction to the seminal text and collects numerous hard-to-find writings on film by Münsterberg.
"The Americans" by Hugo Munsterberg stands alongside Alexis de
Tocqueville's "American Democracy" as one of the great works on the
New World written by a scholar deeply familiar with the Old World.
When originally published, it gave the German public a sense of
American life, and was described as "a book which deals in a
detailed way with the political, economic, intellectual, and social
aspects of American culture." Munsterberg, a world-renowned
psychologist at the turn of the twentieth century, noted that "its
purpose is to interpret systematically the democratic ideals of
America."
The primary aim of "The Americans" is to study the people and
America's inner tendencies. It offers a "philosophy of
Americanism," the ideology of a people writ whole. Munsterberg's
sense of the "spirit" of a people, rather than facts about the
people, is revealed in his four cardinal chapters: Self-Direction,
Self-Realization, Self-Perfection, and Self-Assertion. While he
covers the economic premises of the free market and the politics of
party affairs, he considers these the least important. Instead it
is the lasting forces and tendencies of American life, rather than
problems of the day, that occupy the author. This focus was shared
by German readers, for whom the book was conceived, and for those
in the United States who read the book in English.
The dynamic of strong basic tendencies of democratic forces and
lesser, but significant, aristocratic tendencies underwrites the
strains and tensions in American society. It also defines the
special nature of a book, written more than one hundred years ago,
that retains its lively sense of purpose and deep insight into
American life. One could well say that this book is required
reading in this day and age for Americans and Europeans alike. This
is a neglected masterpiece.
Münsterberg's work on the emerging art of cinema remains a key document for film scholars, but it has long been out of print. In this new edition, Allan Langdale provides a critical introduction to the seminal text and collects numerous hard-to-find writings on film by Münsterberg.
j***VERKAUFSKATEGORIE*** 0 d Der deutsch-amerikanische Psychologe
Hugo Munsterberg (1863-1916) ist heute vor allem als Pionier der
angewandten Psychologie bekannt. Daruber gerat in Vergessenheit,
dass ein grosser Teil seines umfangreichen Lebenswerkes den
methodologischen Grundlagenproblemen der Psychologie gewidmet war.
Die vorliegende Ausgabe korrigiert diese Fehleinschatzung, indem
sie die wichtigsten Schriften aus Munsterbergs Zeit als
Privatdozent in Freiburg wieder verfugbar macht. Diese teilweise im
Auszug vorgelegten Texte (Beitrage zur experimentellen Psychologie,
Uber die Willenshandlung, Uber den Ursprung der Sittlichkeit) sind
seit ihrem Erscheinen niemals neu aufgelegt worden. Sie zeigen
Munsterbergs Bemuhen um eine evolutionstheoretische Begrundung der
wissenschaftlichen Psychologie im Kampf gegen das psychologische
Systems Wilhelm Wundts. Eine umfangreiche Einleitung und
Materialien zur Rezeptionsgeschichte dokumentieren die bedeutende
Rolle, die Munsterberg in den Debatten um die Grundlegung der
Psychologie als Wissenschaft gespielt hat.
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