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Mead and Modernity
Science, Selfhood, and Democratic Politics
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2010
Summary
Filipe Carreira da Silva addresses the basic questions 'How should we read Mead?' and 'Why should we read Mead today' by showing that the history of ideas and theory-building are closely-related endeavors. Following a contextualist approach in exploring the meaning of Mead's writings, Carreira da Silva reads the entire corpus of Mead's published and unpublished writings in light of the context in which they were originally produced, from concrete events like the American involvement in World War I to more general debates like that of the nature of modernity. Mead and Modernity attests to the relevance of Mead's ideas by assessing the relative merits of his responses to three fundamental modern problematics: science, selfhood, and democratic politics. The outcome is an innovative intellectual portrait of Mead as a seminal thinker whose contributions extend beyond his well-known social theory of the self and include important insights into the philosophy of science and radical democratic theory.
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Copyright year
2010
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-1511-4
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-5005-4
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
244
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Chapter 01. Introduction No access
Chapter 02. Mead and the Modern Problematic of Selfhood No access
Chapter 03. Imagining the Intellectual Edifice No access
Chapter 04. The Making of a Classic No access
Chapter 05. Science as a Problem-Solving Activity No access
Chapter 06. From the Logic of the Sciences to the Theory of the Act No access
Chapter 07. A Scientific Social Psychology No access
Chapter 08. A Science of Politics and Morals No access
Chapter 09. Mead on the Social Origins of the Self No access
Chapter 10. Educating the Self No access
Chapter 11. Mead on Social Psychology: A Story Rewritten No access
Chapter 12. Mead, Habermas, and Social Individuation No access
Chapter 13. The Theory and Practice of Social Reconstruction No access
Chapter 14. Mead and the War No access
Chapter 15. Communicative Ethics and Deliberative Democracy No access
Chapter 16. Conclusions: Provisional Answers to Inescapable Questions No access
