The Mind of the Nation : : ‹i›Völkerpsychologie‹/i› in Germany, 1851-1955 / / Egbert Klautke.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Klautke, Egbert,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (194 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction: Völkerpsychologie in Germany --; Chapter 1 Lazarus, Steinthal and the Invention of Folk Psychology --; Chapter 2 Wilhelm Wundt’s Folk Psychology --; Chapter 3 Willy Hellpach and the Resurrection of Folk Psychology --; Conclusion: Völkerpsychologie after the Catastrophe --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781782380207; 9783110998283
• DOI: 10.1515/9781782380207
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Egbert Klautke.

Völkerpsychologie played an important role in establishing the social sciences via the works of such scholars as Georg Simmel, Emile Durkheim, Ernest Renan, Franz Boas, and Werner Sombart. In Germany, the intellectual history of “folk psychology” was represented by Moritz Lazarus, Heymann Steinthal, Wilhelm Wundt and Willy Hellpach. This book follows the invention of the discipline in the nineteenth century, its rise around the turn of the century and its ultimate demise after the Second World War. In addition, it shows that despite the repudiation of “folk psychology” and its failed institutionalization, the discipline remains relevant as a precursor of contemporary studies of “national identity.”