The Challenges of Cultural Psychology

Gordana Jovanović is Professor of Psychology at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Serbia. She is committed to psychology understood as a human science closely related to other human sciences and philosophy. Her research is theoretically driven, epistemologically reflected and argues for the necessity of historical foundations and the critical responsibility of psychology. Lars Allolio-Näcke is manager and scientific coordinator at the Zentralinstitut "Anthropologie der Religion(en)" at Friedrich-Alexander Universität, Erlangen, Germany. His main interests include philosophy of subjectivity, historical anthropology, cultural psychology, psychology of religion, and philosophy of science. Carl Ratner has been developing a new theory and methodology for four decades under the title "macro cultural psychology." Ratner emphasizes the political character of culture and psychology and uses it to develop social and psychological enrichment. Ratner has lived in and conducted research in China, India, and Saudi Arabia.

Part I: Cultural Psychology as a Human Science 1. Cultural Psychology as a Human Science Gordana Jovanović 2. Natureculture in a Transformative Worldview: Moving beyond the "Interactionist Consensus" Anna Stetsenko Part II: Reviving Historical Legacies for Cultural Psychology 3. Nature Unveiling Herself before Science: The Relationship between Mind and Culture in the Perspective of Giambattista Vico Luca Tateo 4. Völkerpsychologie as Cultural Psychology: The Place of Culture in Wundt’s Psychological Project Saulo de Freitas Araujo 5. Wilhelm Dilthey’s Conception of a Descriptive and Comprehensive Psychology Hans-Ulrich Lessing 6. Ernst Cassirer’s Cultural Theory: Culture as Symbolical Practice Jan Weyand Part III: Vicissitudes of Cultural Psychology 7. Roots and Rise of Cultural Psychology Lars Allolio-Näcke 8. Culture and Personality: A Once and Future Research Program? Christian G. Allesch 9. Bruner’s Lectures: Cultural Psychology in statu nascendi William R. Woodward 10. Ernst E. Boesch and his Symbolic Action Theory Lars Allolio-Näcke 11. The Repression of Cultural Psychology in the History of Psychology Gordana Jovanović Part IV: Epistemological Challenges of Cultural Psychology12. Contingent Universals as the Expression of a Culture Rom Harré and Jean-Pierre Llored 13. The Place of Culture in Psychology: A Social Constructionist Standpoint Kenneth J. Gergen 14. Light through a Cultural Lens: Decolonizing the History of Psychology and Resilience Wade E. Pickren 15. Narrative Psychology as Cultural Psychology Csaba Pléh 16. Towards Cultural (African) Psychology: Links, Challenges and Possibilities Kopano Ratele Part V: Cultural Psychology of Self, Body, Culture and Society 17. The Self in Japanese Culture from an Embodied Perspective Shogo Tanaka 18. The Moving Body Elisa Krause-Kjær, Jensine I. Nedergaard, & Jaan Valsiner 19. Toward a Vygotskian Analysis of Emotions: Theoretical and Methodological Bases for a Critical Social Psychology Gisele Toassa 20. Aesthetics and Cultural Psychology Christian G. Allesch 21. Let One Person’s Tears not be Infectious: Efik Proverbs as Emotion Regulation Exemplars Vivian Dzokoto, Eyo Mensah, Eunsoo Choi, and Melissa Washington-Nortey 22. Cultural-historical Hyperobjects Cathrine Hasse 23. The Genesis of Macro Cultural Psychology’s Culture Theory from Traditional Cultural Psychology Carl Ratner 24. The Genesis of Macro Cultural Psychology’s Political Orientation from other Approaches to Cultural Psychology Carl Ratner Part VI: Thinking with Cultural Psychology about the Future 25. Thinking with Cultural Psychology about the Future Gordana Jovanović, Luca Tateo, and Csaba Pléh, and William R. Woodward