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Between Philosophy and Cultural Psychology

Part of the SpringerBriefs in Psychology Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-58190-9

ISBN: 978-3-030-58189-3

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Sep 25, 2020

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Chapter 1Introduction: Linking Philosophy and Cultural Psychology

Innis, Robert E.

Pages: 1 –8

[Cultural psychology has multiple points of intersection with central themes and issues of philosophy, especially a philosophy informed by a broad-based semioticsSemiotics. The shared problems of philosophy and of cultural psychology are our problems, vitally important issues embedded in what...
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Chapter 2Beyond the Kodak Fixation: Contexts, Situations, and Backgrounds

Innis, Robert E.

Pages: 9 –29

[John Dewey, articulating the central idea of his naturalistic yet non-reductive pragmatism, places the ultimate thresholds of senseThresholds of sense within dynamic systems of transactionsTransactions that enable human beings to adjust to and to cope with the changing contextsContextsand...
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Chapter 3Semiotic Framing of Thresholds of Sense

Innis, Robert E.

Pages: 31 –48

[SemioticsSemiotics studies the systems of sign configurations that make up as well as inform the objective frames of self-formationSelf-formation within which human meaning-making takes place. It is directly linked in multiple ways with cultural psychology’s deepest concerns: the genesis of...
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Chapter 4Feeling, Abstraction, Symbolization: Langer’s Aesthetic Model of Minding

Innis, Robert E.

Pages: 49 –67

[Susanne LangerLanger, S.presentedAbstraction human experience and self-formation as a dynamic spiraling matrix of feelingFeeling and of processes of symbolic transformationSymbolic transformation in which ‘meaning accrues essentially to forms.’ Her powerful analytical framework maps the...
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Chapter 5Affectivation: Life-Giving Signs

Innis, Robert E.

Pages: 69 –84

[AffectivationAffectivation is a Janus-faced phenomenon. It is a permanent feature of our life in signs and of the life of signs and not just of a specific use of them. Human beings give life to themselves in multiple dimensions by giving life to signs, including the apprehension of the symbolic...

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