The Individual and Society

Simon Sutterlütti () and Stefan Meretz ()
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Simon Sutterlütti: University of Bonn
Stefan Meretz: University of Bonn

Chapter Chapter 5 in Make Capitalism History, 2023, pp 109-140 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In this chapter, the authors’ own theoretical foundations are outlined. Their theory of the individual comes from Klaus Holzkamp’s Critical Psychology. For Critical Psychology, humans stand out from animals because they produce their own living conditions such as houses, infrastructure, language or state, racism and market, and therefore can change them. According to Critical Psychology, humans have both sensual-vital needs such as the pursuit of food or shelter, and productive needs to participate in the disposition of the societal conditions in order to secure the sources of need satisfaction. They understand society as a material, symbolic and social framework for action that has a certain degree of independence. Society is determined by forms of mediation via market, state planning, self-organisation and so on. This mediation can provide a logic of inclusion that promotes solidary and just action, or a logic of exclusion that prompts living at the expense of others to satisfy one’s own needs.

Keywords: Critical Psychology; Societal nature; Exclusion logic; Inclusion logic; Mediation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-14645-9_5

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