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The Elgar Companion to George Herbert Mead.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Côté, Jean-François.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mead, George Herbert, 1863-1931.
- Symbolic interactionism.
- Social psychology.
- Local Subjects:
- Mead, George Herbert, 1863-1931.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (461 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025.
- Summary:
- This illuminating Companion presents a new perspective on George Herbert Mead's contribution to philosophy and the social sciences. It provides an updated interpretation of Mead's pragmatism, containing references to contemporary issues in epistemology, theory, and political reformism promoted by Mead in his lifetime.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- Introduction to The Elgar Companion to George Herbert Mead
- PART I: Mead's Writings
- Chapter 1: G.H. Mead and the materiality of ideas
- Chapter 2: The philosophy of the present: Mead's foundational cosmology
- Chapter 3: Re-envisioning the legacy of Mind, Self and Society
- Chapter 4: Mead's Movements of Thought in the Nineteenth Century and the shaping of a socio-historical approach to society
- PART II: Mead's Conceptual Views and their Applications
- Chapter 5: Mead as an interpreter of Darwin: the organism-environment relationship, perspective, and sociality, in light of contemporary evolutionism
- Chapter 6: The influence of William James's psychology on George H. Mead's social psychology
- Chapter 7: George Herbert Mead's concept of perspective
- Chapter 8: G.H. Mead and the cognitive sciences
- Chapter 9: Mead's account of aesthetic experience: a contextual assessment
- Chapter 10: George Herbert Mead and Jessie Taft: women and feminism from a social behaviorism point of view
- Chapter 11: Social psychology, history, and ethics: Mead on international-mindedness
- PART III: Mead and his 'others'…
- Chapter 12: 'A theoretical basis for practical work in the social sciences': Clifford Geertz's undergraduate encounter with George Herbert Mead
- Chapter 13: Social positioning theory and Mead on the social individual
- Chapter 14: Reading, writing, and revolution: Mead's influence on James T. Farrell and Grace Lee Boggs
- Chapter 15: George Herbert Mead and Ernst Cassirer: an unexpected encounter
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- ISBN:
- 1-03-532059-2
- 1-03-538487-6
- 9781035320592
- OCLC:
- 1570552536
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