Narration, Identity, and Historical Consciousness / / ed. by Jürgen Straub.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Billmann-Mahecha, Elfriede,; Boothe, Brigitte,; Brumlik, Micha,; Bruner, Jerome S.,; Gergen, Kenneth J.,; Hausen, Monika,; Métraux, Alexandre,; Polkinghorne, Donald E.,; Seixas, Peter,; Spence, Donald P.,; Straub, Jürgen,; Welzer, Harald,; Wineburg, Samuel S.,
• HerausgeberIn: Straub, Jürgen,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2005]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Series: Making Sense of History ; 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)

A generally acknowledged characteristic of modern life, namely the temporalization of experience, inextricable from our intensified experience of contingency and difference, has until now remained largely outside psychology’s purview. Wherever questions about the development, structure, and function of the concept of time have been posed – for example by Piaget and other founders of genetic structuralism – they have been concerned predominantly with concepts of "physical", chronometrical time, and related concepts (e.g., "velocity"). All the contributions to the present volume attempt to close this gap. A larger number are especially interested in the narration of stories. Overviews of the relevant literature, as well as empirical case studies, appear alongside theoretical and methodological reflections. Most contributions refer to specifically historical phenomena and meaning-constructions. Some touch on the subjects of biographical memory and biographical constructions of reality. Of all the various affinities between the contributions collected here, the most important is their consistent attention to issues of the constitution and representation of temporal experience.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the Series -- Foreword -- Part I THEORETICAL POSITIONS AND REFLECTIONS -- CHAPTER 1 Narrative Psychology and Historical Consciousness Relationships and Perspectives -- CHAPTER 2 Past and Present as Narrative Constructions -- CHAPTER 3 Telling Stories, Making History Toward a Narrative Psychology of the Historical Construction of Meaning -- CHAPTER 4 Narrative, Moral Identity, and Historical Consciousness: A Social Constructionist Account -- CHAPTER 5 Narrative Truth and Identity Formation: Abduction and Abuse Stories as Metaphors -- Part 2 ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF NARRATIVE COMPETENCE AND HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS -- CHAPTER 6 The Concept of Time and the Faculty of Judgment in the Ontogenesis of Historical Consciousness -- CHAPTER 7 Historical Consciousness: The Progress of Knowledge in a Postprogressive Age -- Part 3 EMPIRICAL RESEARCH/ CASE STUDIES -- CHAPTER 8 Empirical Psychological Approaches to the Historical Consciousness of Children -- CHAPTER 9 The Psychological Study of Historical Consciousness -- CHAPTER 10 Biography—A Dream? Self-Chronicling in the Age of Psychoanalysis -- CHAPTER 11 Authenticity and Authority On Understanding the Shoah -- CHAPTER 12 Albert Speer’s Memories of the Future On the Historical Consciousness of a Leading Figure in the Third Reich -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index of Names