People in Germany have an indifferent to poor relationship with our society. In fact, modernity, i.e. the last 200 years, has given the population historically unprecedented progress: democracy, human rights, social security systems, nutritive abundance. Yet this is little appreciated. This may be due to the fact that, in Diderot's sense, we have to prove ourselves permanently, that is, we live in a meritocracy that produces suffering. However, totalitarian ideologies have also emerged and been implemented in modernity, for which modernity is also responsible. This essential shows that psychology, on closer inspection, turns out to be the defender of the good parts of modernity.
Author(s): Christoph Klotter
Series: essentials
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 64
City: Wiesbaden
What You Can Find in This essential
Preface
Contents
Introduction
Overview
To Prove Oneself
Diderot’s Approach
Proving Oneself in This World for the Next World
Prove Yourself, Also for Social Power
Romanticism
Modernity—Postmodernity
Modern Psychology
Psychology Textbooks: Two Classics
History of Psychology—History of Psychology?
Excursus: Modern Psychology and Descartes/Kant
Psychological Schools
Natural Scientific Psychology and Modernity
Learning Theories
Psychoanalysis
Humanistic Approaches
Systemic Approach
Conclusion
What You Can Take from This essential
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