Elgar Companion to George Herbert Mead

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

AvJean-François Côté,Guido Baggio,Matteo Santarelli

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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.High-profile specialists propose innovative ways of retrospectively assessing Mead’s oeuvre, situating his works in the context of current academic debates and using them to address pressing modern questions. Chapters showcase an original synthesis of the legacy of Mead’s works, examining his writings, his conceptual views and their applications, and his influence on other thinkers. They shed light on his approach to epistemology, cosmology, and social psychology, revealing new aspects of these fields. Featuring an illuminating Foreword by Hans Joas, the Companion establishes novel ways of thinking about his intellectual output and indicates stimulating directions for future research.Examining a wide array of Mead’s remarkable insights and conceptual viewpoints, this Companion is an invaluable resource for scholars and students of political theory, sociology and sociological theory, and social psychology. It is also a beneficial read for social scientists and political reformists interested in Mead’s life, theories, and reputation as a public intellectual.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-12-09
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
FörlagEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN9781035320585

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ContentsForeword viiiIntroduction to The Elgar Companion to George Herbert Mead xiJean-François Côté, Guido Baggio and Matteo SantarelliPART I MEAD’S WRITINGS1 G.H. Mead and the materiality of ideas 2Filipe Carreira da Silva2 The philosophy of the present: Mead’s foundational cosmology 26Jean-François Côté and Francis Douville Vigeant3 Re-envisioning the legacy of Mind, Self and Society 40Marie-Laurence Bordeleau-Payer and Jean-François Côté4 Mead’s movements of thought in the nineteenth century and theshaping of a socio-historical approach to society 61Francis Douville VigeantPART II MEAD’S CONCEPTUAL VIEWS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS5 Mead as an interpreter of Darwin. The organism-environmentrelationship, perspective, and sociality, in light of contemporaryevolutionism 82Andrea Parravicini6 The influence of William James’s psychology on George H.Mead’s social psychology 107Michela Bella7 George Herbert Mead’s concept of perspective 138Baptiste Cornardeau8 G.H. Mead and the cognitive sciences 163Guido Baggio9 Mead’s account of aesthetic experience – a contextual assessment 191Roberta Dreon10 George Herbert Mead and Jessie Taft: women and feminism froma social behaviorism point of view 207Núria Sara Miras Boronat11 Social psychology, history, and ethics: Mead on international-mindedness 226Matteo SantarelliPART III MEAD AND HIS ‘OTHERS’…12 ‘A theoretical basis for practical work in the social sciences:’Clifford Geertz’s undergraduate encounter with George HerbertMead 239Bijan Warner, Daniel R. Huebner and Matteo Bortolini13 Social positioning theory and Mead on the social individual 256Stephen Pratten14 Reading, writing, and revolution: Mead’s influence on James T.Farrell and Grace Lee Boggs 279Daniel R. Huebner15 George Herbert Mead and Ernst Cassirer: an unexpectedencounter 303Jean-François Côté

‘The chapters in this intensely interesting collection illustrate the pathways along which “Mead” has been re-interpreted in recent decades. Beyond the empirical theorist of face-to-face interaction – the “symbolic interactionist” of American fame – Mead is here rediscovered as an extraordinarily broad-ranging thinker, in deep dialogue with European philosophical currents and dedicated to the repair of the most pressing social problems of the day. A highly significant contribution.’