Innovation Genesis

A volume in Advances in Cultural PsychologySeries Editor: Jaan Valsiner Clark UniversityCultural psychology is currently in a phase of rapid growth. Innovating Genesis is an example ofhow the most central aspect of any science-its methodology-undergoes revolutionary transformation.Yet in this book we see careful continuity with the past of the discipline. The orientationto study processes of emergence was well prepared by the Ganzheitspsychologie tradition in earlytwentieth century. If we all have learned something about the world since then it is the inevitablequality of the whole that transcends its parts. Scientists have tried to grasp the general notion ofsuch wholes-yet recurrently regressing to the easy illusion that one can reduce the complexitiesof the in vivo events to the scrutinizes in vitro. By looking to the history of how holistic ideasmight help our present investigations this book demonstrates how contemporary science hassomething to learn from its own history.The editors of this volume have managed to bring together a creative international team of scholars whom they have guided to be ontarget of the content matter of the book-innovating the genesis of the methods for the study of psychological emergence.