Ernst E Boesch
Biographic Data
| ID | 3781451 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ernst E Boesch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ernst E |
| FAMILY NAME | Boesch |
| SIGNATURE | BOESCH E E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Saarbrucken, Germany |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
On Enmity, Terror and Fear
In this article, HARM presents a small excerpt from Ernst E. Boesch’s book “Von Kunst bis Terror - Über den Zwiespalt in der Kultur” [From art to terror - On the dichotomy in culture], published in 2005. The editors of HARM want to draw attention to a psychologist and social theorist who saw himself as a cultural psychologist and, as such, wanted to show how much more complex, ambivalent, opaque and unpredictable human thinking, feeling, behaviou…
Ein Vorschlag zum Jahr der Geisteswissenschaften (2007)
Between Culture and Biology
Between Culture and Biology breaks away from the traditional nature/nurture dialectic and brings together biological, psychological and cultural perspectives on development. In this thought-provoking book, the argument is put forward that the biological bases of behaviour and cultural context should be approached in an integrated fashion to properly understand ontogenetic development and that both the cultural and biological demain provide constr…
Symbolic Action Theory in Cultural Psychology
Reasons for a Symbolic Concept of Action
The action theoretical framework of cultural psychology as discussed here recognizes in every action and situation a symbolic part of the total varience of meaning. This aspect of the theory, although central, is often disregarded. Three of its implications are discussed here: the steps of reasoning leading to the concept of a pervasively symbolic action; its usefulness in cultural psychology; and, its relation to a philosophical idea of the huma…
The Story of a Cultural Psychologist
The following autobiographical essay traces three topics: firstly, the particular individual circumstances which led to me becoming a cultural psychologist under the difficult conditions of postwar Germany; secondly, the main culture-psychological research work we carried out at the University of the Saarland; and thirdly, the theoretical rationale on which this work was based
The Story of a Cultural Psychologist
The following autobiographical essay traces three topics: firstly, the particular individual circumstances which led to me becoming a cultural psychologist under the difficult conditions of postwar Germany; secondly, the main culture-psychological research work we carried out at the University of the Saarland; and thirdly, the theoretical rationale on which this work was based
Symbolic Action Theory in Cultural Psychology
Reasons for a Symbolic Concept of Action
The action theoretical framework of cultural psychology as discussed here recognizes in every action and situation a symbolic part of the total varience of meaning. This aspect of the theory, although central, is often disregarded. Three of its implications are discussed here: the steps of reasoning leading to the concept of a pervasively symbolic action; its usefulness in cultural psychology; and, its relation to a philosophical idea of the huma…
Reasons for a Symbolic Concept of Action
The action theoretical framework of cultural psychology as discussed here recognizes in every action and situation a symbolic part of the total varience of meaning. This aspect of the theory, although central, is often disregarded. Three of its implications are discussed here: the steps of reasoning leading to the concept of a pervasively symbolic action; its usefulness in cultural psychology; and, its relation to a philosophical idea of the huma…
The Story of a Cultural Psychologist
The following autobiographical essay traces three topics: firstly, the particular individual circumstances which led to me becoming a cultural psychologist under the difficult conditions of postwar Germany; secondly, the main culture-psychological research work we carried out at the University of the Saarland; and thirdly, the theoretical rationale on which this work was based
Symbolic Action Theory in Cultural Psychology
Between Culture and Biology
Between Culture and Biology breaks away from the traditional nature/nurture dialectic and brings together biological, psychological and cultural perspectives on development. In this thought-provoking book, the argument is put forward that the biological bases of behaviour and cultural context should be approached in an integrated fashion to properly understand ontogenetic development and that both the cultural and biological demain provide constr…
Ein Vorschlag zum Jahr der Geisteswissenschaften (2007)
On Enmity, Terror and Fear
In this article, HARM presents a small excerpt from Ernst E. Boesch’s book “Von Kunst bis Terror - Über den Zwiespalt in der Kultur” [From art to terror - On the dichotomy in culture], published in 2005. The editors of HARM want to draw attention to a psychologist and social theorist who saw himself as a cultural psychologist and, as such, wanted to show how much more complex, ambivalent, opaque and unpredictable human thinking, feeling, behaviou…
Philosophy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Psychoanalysis (3 works) · Social Representations and Identity (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Cognitive science (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)