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: title: Introduction; title: Mead and the modern problematic of selfhood; title: Imagining the intellectual edifice; title: The making of a classic; title: Science as a problem-solving activity; title: From the logic of the sciences to the theory of the act; title: A scientific social psychology; title: A science of politics and morals; title: Mead on the social origins of self; title: Educating the self; title: Mead on social psychology : a story rewritten; title: Mead, Habermas, and social individuation; title: The theory and practice of social reconstruction; title: Mead and the war; title: Communicative ethics and deliberative democracy; title: Conclusions: Provisional answers to inescapable questions.