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In this book, Marxist psychology is introduced within a historical and theoretical context. 'Which Marxism?' and 'which psychology?' were the initial questions for discussion which brought responses related to historical personalities, movements, schools of thoughts, countries and subfields. Alienation, ideology and methodology were considered to be major themes for a Marxist psychology. "Why people don't revolt?" is a central question in this context. The discussions revolve on various terms such as false consciousness, just world belief, ideology, hegemony and system justification. Although…mehr

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In this book, Marxist psychology is introduced within a historical and theoretical context. 'Which Marxism?' and 'which psychology?' were the initial questions for discussion which brought responses related to historical personalities, movements, schools of thoughts, countries and subfields. Alienation, ideology and methodology were considered to be major themes for a Marxist psychology. "Why people don't revolt?" is a central question in this context. The discussions revolve on various terms such as false consciousness, just world belief, ideology, hegemony and system justification. Although these are more or less conducive to explain people's apathy, the book is not pessimistic at all. A related question is how consumer society and consumerism can't be understood properly without elaborating on commodity fetishism and alienation. The book concludes with a discussion of the relevance of Ignacio Martín-Baró's liberation psychology for our times and proposes 4 principles for Marxist psychology and healing: Deideologization, dealienation, defetishization and dehegemonization. This book is a gift for Karl Marx's 200th birthday...
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Prof. Dr. Ulä Bäar Gezgin ist Journalist, Sozialwissenschaftler und Akademiker mit zwei Jahrzehnten Lehr- und Forschungserfahrung in verschiedenen Ländern. Er hat Abschlüsse in Pädagogik, Psychologie, Kognitionswissenschaft und Stadtplanung. Er hat 90 Bücher in verschiedenen Bereichen veröffentlicht. Für weitere Informationen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ulasbasargezgin