Synopses & Reviews
George Herbert Mead is widely recognized as one of the most brilliantly original American pragmatists. Although he had a profound influence on the development of social philosophy, he published no books in his lifetime. This makes the lectures collected in
Mind, Self, and Society all the more remarkable, as they offer a rare synthesis of his ideas.
This collection gets to the heart of Meads meditations on social psychology and social philosophy. Its penetrating, conversational tone transports the reader directly into Meads classroom as he teases out the genesis of the self and the nature of the mind. The book captures his wry humor and shrewd reasoning, showing a man comfortable quoting Aristotle alongside Alice in Wonderland.
Included in this edition are an insightful foreword from leading Mead scholar Hans Joas, a revealing set of textual notes by Dan Huebner that detail the texts origins, and a comprehensive bibliography of Meads other published writings. While Meads lectures inspired hundreds of students, much of his brilliance has been lost to time. This new edition ensures that Meads ideas will carry on, inspiring a new generation of thinkers.
Synopsis
One of the most brilliantly original of American pragmatists, George Herbert Mead published surprisingly few major papers and not a single book during his lifetime. Yet his influence on American sociology and social psychology since World War II has been exceedingly strong.
This volume is a revised and enlarged edition of the book formerly published under the title The Social Psychology of George Herbert Mead. It contains selections from Mead's posthumous books: Mind, Self, and Society; Movements of Thought in the Nineteenth Century; The Philosophy of the Act; and The Philosophy of the Present, together with an incisive, newly revised, introductory essay by Anselm Strauss on the importance of Mead for contemporary social psychology.
"Required reading for the social scientist."—Milton L. Barron, Nation
Synopsis
George Herbert Mead is widely considered among the most influential philosophers in American pragmatism. Created from verbatim notes of his widely attended lectures at the University of Chicago, Mind, Self, And Society captures both the intellect and the personality of one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century and remains a seminal text in both social psychology and philosophy. This new, definitive edition includes an insightful foreword from leading Mead scholar Hans Joas, as well as a revealing set of textual notes by Dan Huebner that detail the origins of the text. The added materials will shed new light and spur new scholarship on this masterwork.
Description
Bibliography: p. [355]-358.
About the Author
Anselm Strauss (1916-1996) was a professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. He is a coauthor of
Social Organization of Medical Work, published by the University of Chicago Press, as well as the author of many other works.
Table of Contents
Introduction by Anselm Strauss
Part I
1. Evolution Becomes a General Idea
2. The Problem of Society—How We Become Selves
Part II
3. The Nature of Scientific Knowledge
Part III
4. Mind Approached through Behavior—Can Its Study Be Made Scientific?
Part IV
5. The Process of Mind in Nature
Part V
6. Mind
Part VI
7. Self
Part VII
8. Society
Part VIII
9. Auguste Comte
10. Cooley's Contribution to American Social Thought
11. Henri Bergson
Part IX
12. History and the Experimental Method
13. Time
14. The Objective Reality of Perspectives
Bibliography
The Writings of George H. Mead