Psychology in Utopia: Toward a Social History of Soviet Psychology

by Alex Kozulin

Book Overview

What function can a science of psychology serve in a utopian society whose ideological foundations already contain a theory of human nature? This is the question that has dominated the history of Soviet psychology-a history that Alex Kozulin decodes in this book. Following an introduction that discusses the problems of deciphering the real content of scientific work produced in an ideological context, the author reviews the work and the fate of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262110873
• ISBN13: 9780262110877
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 179 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.