Mead and Modernity

Filipe Carreira da Silva is a research fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lisbon and senior member at Wolfson College, Cambridge.

• Part 1 Part I: Mead, Sociology, and ModernityChapter 2 Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 3 Chapter 2: Mead and the Modern Problematic of SelfhoodChapter 4 Chapter 3: Imagining the Intellectual EdificeChapter 5 Chapter 4: The Making of a ClassicPart 6 Part II: The Pillar of ScienceChapter 7 Chapter 5: Science as a Problem-Solving ActivityChapter 8 Chapter 6: From the Logic of the Sciences to the Theory of the ArtChapter 9 Chapter 7: A Scientific Social PsychologyChapter 10 Chapter 8: A Science of Politics and MoralsPart 11 Part III: The Pillar of Social PsychologyChapter 12 Chapter 9: Mead on the Social Origins of the SelfChapter 13 Chapter 10: Educating the SelfChapter 14 Chapter 11: Mead on Social Psychology: A Story RewrittenChapter 15 Chapter 12: Mead, Habermas, and Social IndividuationPart 16 Part IV: The Pillar of PoliticsChapter 17 Chapter 13: The Theory and Practice of Social ReconstructionChapter 18 Chapter 14: Mead and the WarChapter 19 Chapter 15: Communicative Ethics and Deliberative DemocracyChapter 20 Chapter 16: Conclusions: Provisional Answers to Inescapable QuestionsPart 21 BibliographyChapter 22 Primary SourcesChapter 23 Secondary Sources

His goal is to suggest some ways in which Mead's ideas could inform contemporary social theories of modernity. The result is a short but informative book on a broad range of topics associated with Med's thought, and a useful corrective to some of the ways he is misrepresented in contemporary sociology....Contemporary scholars of Mead have been trying to dislodgge this profile by drawing out his more pragmatist and materialist ideas, a goal that Silva furthers with some success in this book...the central thesis of Filipe Carreira da Silva's book is an excellent way to conceive of Mead's ideas as a whole, and his insights and critiques are both useful and original. It is an essential reference for Mead shcholars, and would also serve as an accessible and comprehensive introduction to Mead's social theory for students.