William James, Sciences of Mind, and Anti-Imperial Discourse

Informationen zum Autor Bernadette M. Baker is a professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin. Her research areas include philosophy, history, comparative cosmology and sociology as they intersect with curriculum studies and transnational and postfoundationalist approaches. She is the recipient of a Fulbright fellowship and of an Outstanding Book Award from the American Educational Research Association for In Perpetual Motion: Theories of Power, Educational History, and the Child (2001). Baker currently holds a visiting professorship at the University of Copenhagen. Klappentext An innovative approach to rethinking sciences of mind at the turn of the twenty-first century via the texts of philosopher and psychologist William James. Zusammenfassung This book offers an innovative approach to rethinking sciences of mind as they formed at the turn of the twentieth century! via the concerns that have emerged at the turn of the twenty-first. The less-visited texts of William James provide a window and a springboard into contemporary debates over principles of toleration! anti-imperial discourse and the nature of ethics. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Between the child's mind and the ghost: scientific objects and the contours of colonial authority; 2. Mind over matter? Psychology of associationism, tactic of education, and anthropology of native informant/s; 3. Exceptional (mental?) states: conscious/unconscious and self-regulation of the democratic citizen; 4. Richard Hodgson calling: spirit-return, biopower, and the mystical; 5. Rationality: always ready?

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• Authors: Bernadette M Baker, Bernadette M. Baker, Bernadette M. (University of Wisconsin Baker, BAKER BERNADETTE M, Baker Bernadette M.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2013
• EAN: 9781107026957
• ISBN: 978-1-107-02695-7
• No. of pages: 436
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; History of Ideas, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, HISTORY / Social History, Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / General, PSYCHOLOGY / History, Social, group or collective psychology, Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints