Expanding the Category "Human"

Nonhumanism, Posthumanism, and Humanistic Psychology

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Expanding the Category "Human"

Nonhumanism, Posthumanism, and Humanistic Psychology

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The climate within the discipline of psychology has changed considerably since the middle of the twentieth century. More specifically, what it means to be a human has changed. In Expanding the Category “Human”: Nonhumanism, Posthumanism, and Humanistic Psychology, Patrick M. Whitehead argues that the metaphysical problems that psychologists faced sixty years ago are not the same ones they face today. Humanistic psychologists could once choose to protect the integrity of human beings as well as to engage in open inquiry and accept all human beings, but Whitehead contends that a choice between the two must now be made. This book is recommended for scholars and practitioners of psychology and philosophy.

Table of Contents

Preface Introduction Chapter 1: The Cult of Humanism in Psychology Chapter 2: Problem One: Nature’s DivisionsChapter 3: The Importance of Resolving this Division for Humanistic Ecopsychology Chapter 4: Problem Two: Rejecting Non-Subjective forms of Inquiry Chapter 5: Subjectivity as a Nonhuman Attribute: All Nature as Flesh Chapter 6: Problem Three: Rejecting Posthuman Possibilities Chapter 7: Recognizing how Technology has Shaped Human Being: Towards a Post-Humanisitc Psychology Chapter 8: The Radical Edge: Object-Oriented Psychology or, the Psychology of Things References
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Published Dec 20 2017
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 182
ISBN 9781498559362
Imprint Lexington Books
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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