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" The human image and postmodern America / "
Joseph F. Rychlak.
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BL
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946642
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b701012
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Rychlak, Joseph F.
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The human image and postmodern America /\ Joseph F. Rychlak.
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1st ed.
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Washington, DC :: American Psychological Association,, ©2003.
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xiii, 175 pages ;; 27 cm
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1557989869
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: 9781557989864
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-161) and indexes.
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| Contents
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Being human collectively and individually -- Personality theorizing as describing individuals or collectives -- Collective theorizing in the third millennium -- A missing link in the human image -- The self takes over -- Biology and behavior -- Values at every turn -- The human image in postmodern America.
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This book is a thought-provoking critique of the basic premises underlying the explanations of human behavior frequently offered by psychologists. Despite its avowed shift away from behavioristic ways of thinking, psychology today, according to Rychlak, is essentially mechanistic. But while biological and automatic processes clearly have vital uses, they are unable to fully account for such phenomena as free will and agency--the very qualities that make us human. Rychlak has written a short, accessible book, analyzing an impressive range of social and cultural issues such as personal responsibility, individualism and collectivism, autonomy, anti-authoritarianism, postmodernism, racism, and political correctness. In each case he demonstrates the teleological or nonmechanical nature of our behavior in real-life situations. While this is not a "how-to" book in the usual sense of the word, its author does suggest that only when we come to understand what it really means to be human can we resolve the most pressing issues of our times. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved).
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Human behavior.
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Postmodernism.
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Psychology.
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Comportement humain.
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Postmodernisme.
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Psychologie.
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21e siècle.
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77.02 philosophy and theory of psychology.
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Américain.
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Comportement.
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Human behavior.
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Human behavior.
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Humanethologie
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Humanité
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Postmoderne
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Postmodernism.
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Postmodernism.
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Postmodernisme.
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Psychologie
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Psychologie.
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Psychology.
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Psychology.
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Être humain.
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Gedrag.
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Postmodernisme.
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États-Unis.
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USA.
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| Dewey Classification
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150
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BF121.R93 2003
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77.02bcl
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