系列：欧洲社会心理学专著
这本书提供了亨利·塔杰菲尔的传记，他是二十世纪最有影响力的欧洲社会心理学家之一，对他在社会认知、社会认同和群体间关系领域的开创性工作提供了独特的见解。
作者鲁珀特·布朗（Rupert Brown）生动、个人化地描述了塔杰菲尔的生活、学术生涯及其对社会心理学的意义，以及他提出的关键思想。它追溯了塔杰菲尔的一生，从他在一战结束后不久在波兰出生，到他在第二次世界大战中成为战俘，再到他在二战后为犹太孤儿和其他流离失所者所做的工作，再到他作为一名社会心理学家的短暂而辉煌的学术生涯。
布朗根据采访、档案材料、信件、照片和学术成果等一系列来源，熟练地将塔杰菲尔的个人叙述与他不断发展的学术兴趣和重大科学发现结合起来。按照时间顺序，每一章都致力于塔杰菲尔生命中的一个重要过渡时期，这本书以对他死后两个主要遗产的评估结束：欧洲社会心理学协会，这是一个始终贴近塔杰菲尔内心的项目，他为此不懈努力；40多年前，塔杰菲尔提出了社会心理学的“社会认同方法”，现在是该学科最重要的观点之一。
这本书对学生、知名学者以及任何对社会心理学、这位著名学者的一生和持久贡献感兴趣的人来说都是一本引人入胜的书。
Henri Tajfel: Explorer of Identity and Difference
Series: European Monographs in Social Psychology
This book offers a biographical account of Henri Tajfel, one of the most influential European social psychologists of the twentieth century, offering unique insights into his ground-breaking work in the areas of social perception, social identity and intergroup relations.
The author, Rupert Brown, paints a vivid and personal portrait of Tajfel’s life, his academic career and its significance to social psychology, and the key ideas he developed. It traces Tajfel’s life from his birth in Poland just after the end of World War I, his time as a prisoner-of-war in World War II, his work with Jewish orphans and other displaced persons after that war, and thence to his short but glittering academic career as a social psychologist.
Based on a range of sources including interviews, archival material, correspondence, photographs, and scholarly output, Brown expertly weaves together Tajfel’s personal narrative with his evolving intellectual interests and major scientific discoveries. Following a chronological structure with each chapter dedicated to a significant transition period in Tajfel’s life, the book ends with an appraisal of two of his principal posthumous legacies: the European Association of Social Psychology, a project always close to Tajfel’s heart and for which he worked tirelessly; and the ‘social identity approach’ to social psychology initiated by Tajfel over forty years ago and now one of the discipline’s most important perspectives.
This is fascinating reading for students, established scholars, and anyone interested in social psychology and the life and lasting contribution of this celebrated scholar.
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