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Gestalt psychology in German culture, 1890-1967 : holism and the quest for objectivity / Mitchell G. Ash

Main Author Ash, Mitchell G. Publication New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995 Description XII, 513 p., [1] f. Series Cambridge studies in the history of psychology ISBN 0521475406 Abstract Índice: Part I: The social and intellectual settings; Part II: The emergence of Gestatlt theory, 1910-1920; Part III: The Berlin school in Weimar Germany; Part IV: Under Nazism and after: survival and adaptation
Resumo: This is the first full-length historical study of Gestalt psychology, an attempt to advance holistic within natural science. Holistic thought is often portrayed as a woolly minded revolt against reason and modern science, but this is not necessarily so. On the basis of rigorous experimental research and scientific argument as well as on philosophical groups, the Gestalt theorists Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Köhler, and Kurt Koffka opposed conceptions of science and mind that equated knowledge of nature with its effective manipulation and control. Instead, they attempted to establish dynamic principles of inherent, objective order and meaning, in current language, principles of self-organization, in human perception and thinking, in human and animal behavior, and in the physical world. The impact of their work ranged from cognitive science to theoretical biology and film theory.
Topical name Psicologia
Psicologia - Alemanha
CDU 159.9
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Índice: Part I: The social and intellectual settings; Part II: The emergence of Gestatlt theory, 1910-1920; Part III: The Berlin school in Weimar Germany; Part IV: Under Nazism and after: survival and adaptation

Resumo: This is the first full-length historical study of Gestalt psychology, an attempt to advance holistic within natural science. Holistic thought is often portrayed as a woolly minded revolt against reason and modern science, but this is not necessarily so. On the basis of rigorous experimental research and scientific argument as well as on philosophical groups, the Gestalt theorists Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Köhler, and Kurt Koffka opposed conceptions of science and mind that equated knowledge of nature with its effective manipulation and control. Instead, they attempted to establish dynamic principles of inherent, objective order and meaning, in current language, principles of self-organization, in human perception and thinking, in human and animal behavior, and in the physical world. The impact of their work ranged from cognitive science to theoretical biology and film theory.

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