Mead and modernity : science, selfhood, and democratic politics /
Mead and Modernity is one of the most detailed and ambitiously conceived studies of G.H. Mead's work to appear in years. Filipe Carreira da Silva addresses the basic questions 'How should we read Mead?' and 'Why should we read Mead today?' by showing that the history of idea...
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Lanham :
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Mead and the modern problematic of selfhood
- Imagining the intellectual edifice
- The making of a classic
- Science as a problem-solving activity
- From the logic of the sciences to the theory of the act
- A scientific social psychology
- A science of politics and morals
- Mead on the social origins of self
- Educating the self
- Mead on social psychology : a story rewritten
- Mead, Habermas, and social individuation
- The theory and practice of social reconstruction
- Mead and the war
- Communicative ethics and deliberative democracy
- Conclusions: Provisional answers to inescapable questions.
