Psychologies in Revolution: Alexander Luria’s 'Romantic Science' and Soviet Social History

Author:   Hannah Proctor
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2020
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9783030350307


Pages:   259
Publication Date:   14 January 2021
Format:   Paperback
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Psychologies in Revolution: Alexander Luria’s 'Romantic Science' and Soviet Social History


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This book situates the work of the Soviet psychologist and neurologist Alexander Luria (1902-1977) in its historical context and explores the 'romantic' approach to scientific writing developed in his case histories. Luria consistently asserted that human consciousness was formed by cultural and historical experience. He described psychology as the ‘science of social history’ and his ideas about subjectivity, cognition and mental health have a history of their own. Lines of mutual influence existed between Luria and his colleagues on the other side of the iron curtain, but Psychologies in Revolution also discusses Luria’s research in relation to Soviet history – from the October Revolution of 1917 through the collectivisation of agriculture and Stalinist purges of the 1930s to the Second World War and, finally, the relative stability of the Brezhnev era – foregrounding the often marginalised people with whom Luria’s clinical work brought him into contact. By historicising science and by focusing on a theoretical approach which itself emphasised the centrality of social and political factors for understanding human subjectivity, the book also seeks to contribute to current debates in the medical humanities.   

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Author:   Hannah Proctor
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2020
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9783030350307


ISBN 10:   3030350304
Pages:   259
Publication Date:   14 January 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction.- The Criminal.- The ‘Primitive’.- The Child.- The Aphasic.- The Synaesthete.- Conclusion.- 

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Hannah Proctor is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare at the University of Strathclyde, UK, and has previously held positions at the ICI Berlin (Germany), University of Leeds (UK) and Birkbeck (UK), where she also completed her PhD.   

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