The signs of incipient fascism.

Edwards, Allen L.

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“…23 They combined psychology and anthropology in national character studies and in the culture and personality movement, as well as in psychological explanations for the political views held by individuals. The most important work in this last genre of social science was The Authoritarian Personality (TAP), a thousand-page, twenty-six-chapter study coauthored by Theodor Adorno, Else FrenkelBrunswik, Daniel Levinson, and R. Nevitt Sanford.…”

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The Creative American: Cold War Salons, Social Science, and the Cure for Modern Society

Cohen-Cole

2009

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This essay examines how post-World War II Americans linked their understanding of domestic society and international affairs by using a common lens of psychological and characterological analysis for both. That lens was fashioned by social scientists and developed to study conformity and its opposite, creative and autonomous selfhood. Creativity offered a means to achieve the liberal national society they desired. Social scientists managed their technical definitions of conformity and autonomy as a way of defining reasonable political sentiment. This essay details how, ultimately, the forms of self and sociality they advocated for America were grounded in the kinds of community and interpersonal interaction they valued in their own professional lives.

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The Creative American: Cold War Salons, Social Science, and the Cure for Modern Society

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2009

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“…That is a matter for his own mature and considered judgment. This is education without propagandaand the ideal education for democracy (6), which requires strong, self-reliant men and women, who are neither dominating nor'Submissive but mutually cooperative in their socially equal but different and complementary r61es.…”

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Personality as a work of art.

Bridges¹

1945

Psychological Review

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A few years ago in a small volume entitled Personality, Many in One the writer suggested without elaboration that the structure and development of personality is analogous to a work of art. The present paper is a more explicit statement of that point of view together with spme of its implications for education, guidance and social ethics. The main thesis will be presented in outline form, leaving to thereader the task of filling in the details in accordance with his own views on art and psychology; for the principle may be accepted without agreement on its meaning or applications.In the first place personality is 'a work of art' in contradistinction to 'a work of nature,' though to be sure some basic materials are supplied by nature. But the writer's contention is that personality is also a work of art in the aesthetic sense, and of course, like any other work of art, may be original or commonplace, creative or derivative. In other words, personality is a Gestalt and it may be a 'good Gestalt' (7). Now it can be shown more or less satisfactorily that the basic principles underlying all art are the same. They are found equally in architecture, sculpture, painting, music, dance, and poetry (5, 8, 10). But it is just as clear that the significance of any art varies with time and place. The constant features cannot therefore be 'significant form,' in the words of Clive Bell (2,3),but rather pure form. Since these formal elements are universal, they are probably innate. But whether they are, as James suggested of the necessary truths (9), determined by the biological nature of man, or a priori in the Kantian sense,

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Political Psychology

Stone

1981

The Handbook of Political Behavior

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The signs of incipient fascism.

Cited by 9 publications

References 25 publications

The Creative American: Cold War Salons, Social Science, and the Cure for Modern Society

The Creative American: Cold War Salons, Social Science, and the Cure for Modern Society

Personality as a work of art.

Political Psychology

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