Changing Nature of Man: Introduction to a Historical Psychology

by Jan Hendrick Van Den Berg

In this original and provocative book, J. H. van den Berg challenges a basic assumption of twentieth-century that human nature does not change. He If earlier generations, living a different sort of life, were essentially different people, how was this so?

Genres: Psychology, Philosophy, History

1 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1961

Reviews

[Jerome · Rating 3 out of 5]

I picked up this book from a used book store shortly after I was beginning to understand the critique of the enlightenment leveled by the hermeneutical phenomenologists and the Frankfurt School. Far from being that heady, Van Den Berg is far more concrete, heaping examples of epistemic ways of looking at a certain topic in one age, and tracing the shift across subsequent generations.