Personality Theory: The Personological Tradition

In an age where virtually all personality textbooks are encyclopdic in nature, this classic texbook provides a beautifully concise overview of the major ideas in the history of personality theory. For years it was the perfect textbook for an instructor who desired to use a core text, supplemented by other, primary articles or books on personality. It exemplified an ideas-oriented, liberal-arts approach to personality, as opposed to the dreary, technical, detailed treatment of a million modern research studies found in some personality texts today. The bad news is that the book has been out of print for some time. The good news is that Hogan has a new textbook, coauthored with Robert Smither, to replace his classic text. The new text remains true to the spirit of the original, while adding a new applied dimension. The new textbook has also overcomes the one annoying feature of the original, which was a 1960-ish obsession with whether a theory provided a basis for criticising the status quo.