The timeliness of George Herbert Mead / edited by Hans Joas and Daniel R. Huebner.

George Herbert Mead is widely considered one of the most influential American philosophers of the twentieth century, and his work remains vibrant and relevant to many areas of scholarly inquiry today. "The Timeliness of George Herbert Mead" brings together a range of scholars who provide d...

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Other Authors: Joas, Hans, 1948- (Editor), Huebner, Daniel R. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Hans Joas and Daniel R. Huebner
  • History, historiography, historical sociology
  • Changing "movements of thought in the nineteenth century": historical text and historical context / Charles Camic
  • On Mead's long lost history of science / Daniel R. Huebner
  • Pragmatism and historicism: Mead's philosophy of temporality and the logic of historiography / Hans Joas
  • George Herbert Mead and the promise of pragmatist democracy / Robert Westbrook
  • The theory of intersubjectivity as a theory of the human being: George Herbert Mead and the German tradition of philosophical anthropology / Karl-Siegbert Rehberg
  • Nature, environment, process
  • Naturalism and despair: George Herbert Mead and evolution in the 1880s / Trevor Pearce
  • George Herbert Mead as a socio-environmental thinker / Bradley H. Brewster and Antony J. Puddephatt
  • Social worlds: the legacy of Mead's social ecology in Chicago sociology / Daniel Cefaï
  • Mead, Whitehead, and the sociality of nature / Michael L. Thomas
  • Cognition, conscience, language
  • Mead, the theory of mind, and the problem of others / Ryan McVeigh
  • Imitation and taking the attitude of the other / Kelvin Jay Booth
  • Mead meets Tomasello: pragmatism, the cognitive sciences, and the origins of human communication and sociality / Frithjof Nungesser
  • Conscience as ecological participation and the maintenance of moral perplexity / Joshua Daniel
  • Presentation and re-presentation: language, content, and the reconstruction of experience / Roman Madzia
  • G.H. Mead's understanding of the nature of speech in the light of contemporary research / Timothy Gallagher.