Overview

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approach in exploring the meaning of Mead's writings, Carreira da Silva reads the entire corpus of Mead's published and unpublished writings in light of the context in which they were originally produced, from concrete events like the American involvement in World War I to more general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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Author:   Filipe Carreira da Silva
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.20cm
Weight:   0.379kg
ISBN:  

9780739115121

ISBN 10:   073911512
Pages:   252
Publication Date:   08 July 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part 1 Part I: Mead, Sociology, and Modernity Chapter 2 Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 3 Chapter 2: Mead and the Modern Problematic of Selfhood Chapter 4 Chapter 3: Imagining the Intellectual Edifice Chapter 5 Chapter 4: The Making of a Classic Part 6 Part II: The Pillar of Science Chapter 7 Chapter 5: Science as a Problem-Solving Activity Chapter 8 Chapter 6: From the Logic of the Sciences to the Theory of the Art Chapter 9 Chapter 7: A Scientific Social Psychology Chapter 10 Chapter 8: A Science of Politics and Morals Part 11 Part III: The Pillar of Social Psychology Chapter 12 Chapter 9: Mead on the Social Origins of the Self Chapter 13 Chapter 10: Educating the Self Chapter 14 Chapter 11: Mead on Social Psychology: A Story Rewritten Chapter 15 Chapter 12: Mead, Habermas, and Social Individuation Part 16 Part IV: The Pillar of Politics Chapter 17 Chapter 13: The Theory and Practice of Social Reconstruction Chapter 18 Chapter 14: Mead and the War Chapter 19 Chapter 15: Communicative Ethics and Deliberative Democracy Chapter 20 Chapter 16: Conclusions: Provisional Answers to Inescapable Questions Part 21 Bibliography Chapter 22 Primary Sources Chapter 23 Secondary Sources

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Filipe Carreira da Silva masterfully links together the historical development of Mead's thought with an original analysis of what he convincingly identifies as its principal elements. This superb book is a major contribution to the literature on a classic theorist. --William Outhwaite

Author Information

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.

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