{"product_id":"gestalt-psychology-in-german-culture-1890-1967-holism-and-the-quest-for-objectivity-hardback-9780521475402","title":"Gestalt Psychology in German Culture, 1890–1967; Holism and the Quest for Objectivity (Hardback) 9780521475402","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eGestalt Psychology in German Culture, 1890–1967\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eHolism and the Quest for Objectivity\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA full-length historical study of Gestalt psychology in Germany, based on exhaustive research in primary sources.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMitchell G. Ash (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521475402, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 26 January 1996\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e528 pages, 34 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3.3 cm, 0.94 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"...a book that not only is the most comprehensive and authoritative narrative history of Gestalt psychology we are apt to see, but also a study concerened with recentering a number of our assumptions about what this research effort was all about-an effect achieved by situating it systematically in its various shaping, facilitating and constraining contexts: philosophical\/intellectual....The work is particularly impressive for the author's dedication to integrating attention to the actual stuff of Gestalt psychology itself-the studies, what they were asking, how they were carried out-into a theoretically-sensitive, thickening and evolving narrative over more than a half-century of disciplinary formation, elaboration, and finally partially disintegration.\"   Journal of the History of the Behavioral Science\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis is a full-length historical study of Gestalt psychology - an attempt to advance holistic thought within natural science. Holistic thought is often portrayed as a woolly-minded revolt against reason and modern science, but this is not so. On the basis of rigorous experimental research and scientific argument as well as on philosophical grounds, the Gestalt theorists Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Kohler 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, and 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. Based on exhaustive research in primary sources including archival material, this study illuminates the multiple social and intellectual contexts of Gestalt theory and analyses the emergence, development and reception of its conceptual foundations and research programmes from 1890 to 1967.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The Social and Intellectual Settings: 1. The academic environment and the establishment of experimental psychology\u003cbr\u003e 2. Carl Stumpf and the training of scientists in Berlin\u003cbr\u003e 3. The philosophers' protest\u003cbr\u003e 4. Making a science of mind: styles of reasoning in sensory physiology and experimental psychology\u003cbr\u003e 5. Challenging positivism: revised philosophies of mind and science\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Gestalt debate: from Goethe to Ehrenfels and beyond\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Emergence of Gestalt Theory, 1910–1920: 7. Max Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka and Wolfgang Köhler\u003cbr\u003e 8. Laying the conceptual and research foundations\u003cbr\u003e 9. Reconstructing perception and behaviour\u003cbr\u003e 10. Insights and confirmations in animals: Köhler on Tenerife\u003cbr\u003e 11. The step to natural philosophy: Die Physischen Gestalten\u003cbr\u003e 12.  Wertheimer in times of war and revolution: science for the military and toward a new logic\u003cbr\u003e Part III. The Berlin School in Weimar Germany: 13. Establishing the Berlin School\u003cbr\u003e 14. Research styles and results\u003cbr\u003e 15. Theory's growth and limits: development, open systems, self and society\u003cbr\u003e 16. Variations in theory and practice: Kurt Lewin, Adhemar Gelb and Kurt Goldstein\u003cbr\u003e 17. The encounter with Weimar culture\u003cbr\u003e 18. The reception among German-speaking psychologists\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Under Nazism and After: Survival and Adaptation: 19. Persecution, emigration and Köhler's resistance in Berlin\u003cbr\u003e 20. Two students adapt: Wolfgang Metzger and Kurt Gottschaldt\u003cbr\u003e 21. Research, theory and system: continuity and change\u003cbr\u003e 22. The post-war years\u003cbr\u003e Appendices\u003cbr\u003e List of unpublished sources\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Mathematics \u0026amp; science [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Mathematics \u0026amp; science\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Mathematics%20\u0026amp;%20science%20%5BP%5D%22\"\u003eP\u003c\/a\u003e], Psychology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Psychology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Psychology%20%5BJM%5D%22\"\u003eJM\u003c\/a\u003e], History of ideas [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of ideas\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20ideas%20%5BJFCX%5D%22\"\u003eJFCX\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46007677780248,"sku":"9780521475402","price":117.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521475402i_9d82c5bf-7a4b-40ac-b126-2e847a30d8cc.jpg?v=1691382842","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/gestalt-psychology-in-german-culture-1890-1967-holism-and-the-quest-for-objectivity-hardback-9780521475402","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}