Münsterberg's nightmare: Psychology and history in <i>fin‐de‐siècle</i> Germany and America

Stoffers, M.

doi:10.1002/jhbs.10107

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“…Their relations have been interestingly discussed already in relation to Dilthey by the German-American Hugo Mu¨nsterberg (1899Mu¨nsterberg ( , 1915 claiming that they are in fact two aspects of our naı¨ve folk psychology, history dealing with the acts of decision of free agents, while psychology dealing with the causal psychophysical humans. As Stoffers (2003) analyzed recently, in present day terms, in the terms of a Belief Desire psychology, in a strange way Mu¨nsterberg claimed that history was dealing with the desire aspect, psychology with the belief aspect. Hunt shows a similar attitude claiming that this entire duality can be related to folk psychology.…”

Section: The Possibilities Of a Historical Psychologymentioning

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Recovering a French Tradition: Ignace Meyerson in focus

Pléh¹

2019

Culture & Psychology

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The paper is written on the occasion of a new French monograph by Noemi Pizarosso on Ignace Meyerson. This French mid 20th century intellectual has been one of the representatives of the early French non-individualistic social psychologies. Meyerson claimed that the mind undergoes radical changes during historical times. Relative to the other early historical psychologies, Meyerson was more radical and more relativistic in the historical sense. One great merit of the book of Pizarosso is to show that Meyerson and his followers attempted to prove this historical relativity thesis in analyzing changes in the concept of person, and changes in styles of art.

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Recovering a French Tradition: Ignace Meyerson in focus

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2019

Culture & Psychology

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“… 10. For the intellectual context in which Münsterberg delivered his presidential address, see Stoffers (2003).…”

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Mind and knowledge in the early thought of Franz Boas, 1887–1904

Mann

2022

History of the Human Sciences

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Franz Boas’ articulation of a new historicist and relativistic framework for anthropology stands as the founding moment of the discipline. Accordingly, scholars have sought to trace its source and inspirations, often concluding that Boas’ thought was shaped almost exclusively by his German background and characterized by a foundational methodological tension. Here, I instead show that Boas’ most creative early work benefitted from close interaction with debates in psychology and that his methodological reflections were part of the much wider series of discussions in North America engendered by the importation of the German Geistes-/ Naturwissenschaft debate. Central to such debates, as well as to anthropological ones in these years, were the contested definitions of the human mind and of knowledge. Recovering this shared focus reveals the importance of such questions to Boas’ early writings, allowing us to better reconstruct his views on anthropology and to appreciate how he approached the question of how to justify the bounding of human knowledge into specific disciplines.

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“…Such developmental narratives have been called into question for their naivete¨and self-interest, and for perceiving the present as the culmination of past intellectual struggles. By embedding the development of`psy' knowledge into social and political contexts, historians of psychology have illustrated that both the application and the popularisation of new psychological theories were infinitely diverse, shaped by the migration of ideas and individuals and debated as much in public as around the dinner tables of the fin-de-sie© cle bourgeoisie (Borossa, 1997;Carpintero and Herrero, 2002;Dennis, 2002;Soudkova, 2002;Stoffers, 2003). Harry Hendrick (1997) suggests that, in Britain, the discipline of psychology during the first few decades of the 20th century is best represented as a disjointed network of theories and practices.…”

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