Gestalt Psychology in German Culture, 1890-1967 Holism and the Quest for Objectivity

Name: Gestalt Psychology in German Culture, 1890-1967 Holism and the Quest for Objectivity
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ISBN: 9780521475402

ISBN-10: 0521475406

ISBN-13: 9780521475402

Edition: 1998

Authors: Mitchell G. Ash, William R. Woodward

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This is a full-length historical study of Gestalt psychology - an attempt to advance holistic thought within natural science.

Book details

List price: $139.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/26/1996
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 528
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 2.068
Language: English



List of illustrations


Preface


Introduction



The Social and Intellectual Settings



The academic environment and the establishment of experimental psychology



Carl Stumpf and the training of scientists in Berlin



The philosophers' protest



Making a science of mind: styles of reasoning in sensory physiology and experimental psychology



Challenging positivism: revised philosophies of mind and science



The Gestalt debate: from Goethe to Ehrenfels and beyond



The Emergence of Gestalt Theory, 1910-1920



Max Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka and Wolfgang Kohler



Laying the conceptual and research foundations



Reconstructing perception and behaviour



Insights and confirmations in animals: Kohler on Tenerife



The step to natural philosophy: Die Physischen Gestalten



Wertheimer in times of war and revolution: science for the military and toward a new logic



The Berlin School in Weimar Germany



Establishing the Berlin School



Research styles and results



Theory's growth and limits: development, open systems, self and society



Variations in theory and practice: Kurt Lewin, Adhemar Gelb and Kurt Goldstein



The encounter with Weimar culture



The reception among German-speaking psychologists



Under Nazism and After: Survival and Adaptation



Persecution, emigration and Kohler's resistance in Berlin



Two students adapt: Wolfgang Metzger and Kurt Gottschaldt



Research, theory and system: continuity and change



The post-war years; Appendices; List of unpublished sources


Notes


Index