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Narration, Identity, and Historical Consciousness

Narration, Identity, and Historical Consciousness

Jürgen Straub

(2005)

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Abstract

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.


Jürgen Straub is Professor of Psychology at the University of Chemnitz. He was research director and member of the management committee at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities Essen (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen, KWI) from October 1999 to September 2001. Beginning in April 2004, he will lead the research group Intercultural Communication – Intercultural Competence at the KWI. His research topics include the psychology of cultural practices, methodology of qualitative research, and historical consciousness.

Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price
Narration, Identity, and Historical Consciousness 1
Contents 5
Preface to the Series 7
Foreword 13
Part I. THEORETICAL POSITIONS AND REFLECTIONS 17
CHAPTER 1. Narrative Psychology and Historical Consciousness 19
CHAPTER 2. Past and Present as Narrative Constructions 39
CHAPTER 3. Telling Stories, Making History 60
CHAPTER 4. Narrative, Moral Identity, and Historical Consciousness 115
CHAPTER 5. Narrative Truth and Identity Formation 136
Part 2. ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF NARRATIVE COMPETENCE AND HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS 149
CHAPTER 6. The Concept of Time and the Faculty of Judgment in the Ontogenesis of Historical Consciousness 151
CHAPTER 7. Historical Consciousness 157
Part 3. EMPIRICAL RESEARCH/CASE STUDIES 177
CHAPTER 8. Empirical Psychological Approaches to the Historical Consciousness of Children 179
CHAPTER 9. The Psychological Study of Historical Consciousness 203
CHAPTER 10. Biography—A Dream? 227
CHAPTER 11. Authenticity and Authority 244
CHAPTER 12. Albert Speer’s Memories of the Future 261
Bibliography 273
Notes on Contributors 289
Index of Names 293