The work of American pragmatist George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) had a strong influence in fields ranging from metaphysics and ethics to sociology and social psychology. In this book, Hans Joas interweaves Mead's political and intellectual biography with the development of his theories. The key concept of the study is "practical intersubjectivity," a term Joas introduces to characterize the link implicit in Mead's work between a theory of intersubjectivity and a theory of praxis. Throughout the book, Joas stresses the practical, social, and political nature of Mead's work. Besides comparing Mead to the other American pragmatists, Joas discusses the relation between Mead's thought and that of such Europeans as Habermas, Apel, Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, and Piaget.Joas's revisionist portrait of Mead as a socially engaged intellectual, with its emphasis on his relevance for contemporary philosophy and social science, has been a key factor in the revival of interest in Mead. The author's new preface includes an update on pragmatism studies in general and on Mead studies in particular.
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"There is no doubt whatsoever in my mind that Hans Joas's analysis of the theories and ideas of G. H. Mead is the best ever written on the subject." David R. Maines, American Journal of Sociology
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practical intersubjectivity, voluntaristic psychology, pragmatist ethics, punctual present, functionalist psychology, mentalistic psychology, mental presentations, other pragmatists, early philosophical writings, cognitive validity, social genesis, vocal gestures, animal perception Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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This book is the result of a critical study of the work of George Herbert Mead that lasted for years, a study that, although interrupted from time to time, was always taken up again. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
practical intersubjectivity, voluntaristic psychology, pragmatist ethics, punctual present, functionalist psychology, mentalistic psychology, mental presentations, other pragmatists, early philosophical writings, cognitive validity, social genesis, vocal gestures, animal perception Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
William James, John Dewey, George Herbert Mead, Philosophical Anthropology, University of Chicago, Oberlin College, The Philosophy of the Act, Wundt's Völkerpsychologie New!
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- Philosophy of the Act (Works of George Herbert Mead Volume 3) by George Herbert Mead on 16 pages
- The Theory of Communicative Action: Lifeworld and Systems, a Critique of Functionalist Reason, Volume 2 by Jurgen Habermas (Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt); Translated by: Thomas McCarthy (Northwestern University) on 4 pages
- Their Morals and Ours by Leon Trotsky on 4 pages
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn on 4 pages
- Selected Writings by George Herbert Mead on 4 pages
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- Reclaiming the Sociological Classics: The State of the Scholarship (Blackwell Companions to Social Theory) by Charles Camic on 4 pages
- Handbook of Social Theory by George Ritzer on page 98, page 99, and page 230
- Modernist Impulses in the Human Sciences, 1870-1930 by Dorothy Ross in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Information State in England: The Central Collection of Information on Citizens, 1500-2000 by Edward Higgs in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Global Ethnography: Forces, Connections, and Imaginations in a Postmodern World by Michael Burawoy on page 38, and Back Matter
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