Research Catalog

Title

The human image in postmodern America / Joseph F. Rychlak.

Author

Rychlak, Joseph F.

Publication

Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, c2003.

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Details

Description

xiii, 175 p.; 27 cm.

Subjects

• Human behavior
• Postmodernism
• Psychology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-161) and indexes.

Contents

• Ch. 1. Being Human Collectively and Individually -- Basic Concepts to Begin With -- Sorting Out Individual and Collective Processing -- An Example Lifestyle -- Human Agency via Dialectical Reasoning -- Ch. 2. Personality Theorizing as Describing Individuals or Collectives -- Psychoanalyzing Individuals -- Behaviorism: Forgoing the Individual -- From Individual to Collective Theorizing -- Ch. 3. Collective Theorizing in the Third Millennium -- The Emergence of Postindustrial Society -- Postmodernism -- Social Constructionism -- Class Identities and the Marxian Argument -- Society Is Process and Culture Is Content -- Relativism and Evaluation in Reasoning -- Ch. 4. A Missing Link in the Human Image -- The Computer Model: Strengths and Limitations -- Computer Explanation of Free Will -- Overlooking Dialectical Reasoning -- Existentialism, Oppositionality, and Behaviors That Shock or Invite Bigotry -- Oppositionality and Levels of Consciousness --
• A Needed Change in the Human Image -- Ch. 5. The Self Takes Over -- Self and Self-Reflexivity -- Self-Esteem -- Personal Responsibility Through Autonomy -- Politically Correcting Responsibility -- The Myth of Individualism -- Morality, Authoritophobia, and the Authority Within -- Autonomy and the Political Spectrum -- Homelessness as Autonomous Living -- Ch. 6. Biology and Behavior -- Brain Structure: Some Facts -- Imaging Brain Function -- Genes, DNA, and Choice -- Emotions of Love and Lust in Our Time -- Addiction -- Racism -- Ch. 7. Values at Every Turn -- Values and Virtues -- Receiving Versus Conceiving Values -- Religious Values -- Politics -- Culture as Multi- and Relative -- Confronting a "Left-Wing Conspiracy" in Academia? -- Ch. 8. The Human Image in Postmodern America -- Collective Versus Individual Thinking -- The Postindustrial or Postmodern Person -- The Postmodern Family -- Postmodernism as Individualism or Collectivism --
• The Role of Opposition in the Postmodern Image of Humanity -- The Challenge of Relativism -- What Is the Basic Function of Relativism? -- The Defeat of Blind Relativism -- The Imperfect Human Image.

ISBN

1557989869 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2002015069

OCLC

• ocm50622298
• SCSB-4799674

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries