An Old Melody in a New Song: Aesthetics and the Art of Psychology (Theory and History in the Human and Social Sciences)

This book explores the relationship between cultural psychology and aesthetics, by integrating the historical, theoretical and phenomenological perspectives. It offers a comprehensive discussion of the history of aesthetics and psychology from an international perspective, with contributions by leading researchers from Serbia, Austria, Portugal, Norway, Denmark, and Brazil. The first section of the book aims at summarizing the debate of where the song comes from. It discusses undeveloped topics, methodological hints, and epistemological questions in the different areas of contemporary psychological sciences. The second section of the book presents concrete examples of case-studies and methodological issues (the new melodies in psychological research) to stimulate further explorations. The book aims to bring art back into psychology, to provide an understanding for the art of psychology. __An Old Melody in a New Song__ will be of interest to advanced students and researchers in the fields of educational and developmental psychology, cultural psychology, history of ideas, aesthetics, and art-based research. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxi Introduction: The Art of Psychology (Luca Tateo)....Pages 1-11 Aesthetics in Emerging Psychologies, Aesthetics for Emerging Psychologies (Gordana Jovanović)....Pages 13-32 Psychology in Emerging Aesthetics (Christian G. Allesch)....Pages 33-51 Psychological Aesthetics in Russia on the Threshold of the Nineteenth-Century (João Pedro Fróis)....Pages 53-70 Between Sublimity and Pleasantness: About Aesthetical Distribution in Music and Psychology (Sven Hroar Klempe)....Pages 71-85 Participatory Aesthetics: The Function of Imagination (Falk Heinrich)....Pages 87-101 Imaginative Processes and Culture: Some Philosophical Reflections from Cultural Psychology (Luca Tateo)....Pages 103-113 Creativity and Aesthetic Experience in Childhood (Marina Assis Pinheiro)....Pages 115-132 The Teacher is Dead, Long Live the Teacher: Performing Autoethnography as Critical Learning (Tatiana Chemi)....Pages 133-146 Playing in Streams of Knowledge: Multimodality in Perception and Action (Justin Christensen)....Pages 147-160 Social Representations as Social Forms and Aesthetic Phenomena: Dialogue Between Moscovici and Simmel (Dany Boulanger, Bo Allesøe Christensen)....Pages 161-182 The Aestheticized Pilgrimage to IKEATOPIA (Morten Bech Kristensen)....Pages 183-213 Back Matter ....Pages 215-220