Mead and modernity
Subtitle: science, selfhood, and democratic politics
By: Filipe Carreira Da Silva.
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780739115114
Subjects: Mead, George Herbert, -- 1863-1931 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Social psychology.; Social sciences -- Philosophy.; Self (Philosophy); Political sociology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction; value: Mead and the modern problematic of selfhood; value: Imagining the intellectual edifice; value: The making of a classic; value: Science as a problem-solving activity; value: From the logic of the sciences to the theory of the act; value: A scientific social psychology; value: A science of politics and morals; value: Mead on the social origins of self; value: Educating the self; value: Mead on social psychology : a story rewritten; value: Mead, Habermas, and social individuation; value: The theory and practice of social reconstruction; value: Mead and the war; value: Communicative ethics and deliberative democracy; value: Conclusions: Provisional answers to inescapable questions.