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This volume introduces the methodological value of hermeneutic dialogue in the field of theoretical and philosophical psychology. It reflects on the works of Frank Richardson, who has made, and continues to make, seminal contributions to the field, as well as having influenced the work of many of the practitioners engaged in this field today.
Each chapter explores a major topic of hermeneutic dialogue and is authored by a scholar whose work has been directly impacted by Richardson's life and research. The chapters illuminate a variety of issues in psychology, such as instrumentalism, individualism, relationality, social ontology, the wisdom of limits, neoliberalism, and the idea that theory is a form of praxis. All contributions in this volume illustrate aspects of theory as practice coming to expression in reflection on theoretical and philosophical psychology and trace some of the implications for psychology, political philosophy, social justice, community, human dignity, and transcendence.
This book will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of theoretical and philosophical psychology, philosophy of the mind, and personality theories.
List of contents
List of Contributors
Series Foreword
Book Foreword
Acknowledgments
- Introduction (Robert C. Bishop)
- Empty Selves, Multiple Selves, Engaged Selves, Our Selves: Frank Richardson and the Building of an Intellectual Movement (Phillip Cushman)
- Confessions of a Frankophile (Robert L. Woolfolk)
- The Long and Winding Road from the Critique of Individualism to a Social Ontology of Humans (Blaine J. Fowers)
- What’s Wrong with Liberalism? (Jeff Sugarman)
- A Hermeneutic Exploration of the Grounds for Social Justice (Brent D. Slife and Nathan Slife)
- Love Thy Neighbor: Community Within a Wisdom of Limits (Kathleen L. Slaney)
- Human Dignity, the One and the Many (Robert C. Bishop)
- How does the world become ecstatic? Notes on the hermeneutics of transcendence (Mark Freeman)
ReferencesIndex
About the author
Robert C. Bishop is a professor of Physics and Philosophy and John and Madeline McIntyre Chair in Philosophy and History of Science in Wheaton College, USA.
Summary
This volume introduces the methodological value of hermeneutic dialogue in the field of theoretical and philosophical psychology. It reflects on the works of Frank Richardson who has made, and continues to make, seminal contributions to the field, as well as having influenced the work of many of the practitioners engaged in this field today.
