Filipe Carreira Da Silva

Mead and Modernity (eBook, ePUB)

Science, Selfhood, and Democratic Politics

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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approach in exploring the meaning of Mead's writings, Carreira da Silva reads the entire corpus of Mead's published and unpublished writings in light of the context in which they were originally produced, from concrete events like the American involvement in World War I to more general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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739150054
• Artikelnr.: 38220471

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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