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This illuminating Companion presents a new perspective on George Herbert Mead's contribution to philosophy and the social sciences. It provides an updated interpretation of Mead's pragmatism, containing references to contemporary issues in epistemology, theory, and political reformism promoted by Mead in his lifetime.
High-profile specialists propose innovative ways of retrospectively assessing Mead's oeuvre, situating his works in the context of current academic debates and using them to address pressing modern questions. Chapters showcase an original synthesis of the legacy of Mead's works, examining his writings, his conceptual views and their applications, and his influence on other thinkers. They shed light on his approach to epistemology, cosmology, and social psychology, revealing new aspects of these fields. Featuring an illuminating Foreword by Hans Joas, the Companion establishes novel ways of thinking about his intellectual output and indicates stimulating directions for future research.
Examining a wide array of Mead's remarkable insights and conceptual viewpoints, this Companion is an invaluable resource for scholars and students of political theory, sociology and sociological theory, and social psychology. It is also a beneficial read for social scientists and political reformists interested in Mead's life, theories, and reputation as a public intellectual.
Contents
Contents
Foreword viii
Introduction to The Elgar Companion to George Herbert Mead xi
Jean-François Côté, Guido Baggio and Matteo Santarelli
PART I MEAD'S WRITINGS
1 G.H. Mead and the materiality of ideas 2
Filipe Carreira da Silva
2 The philosophy of the present: Mead's foundational cosmology 26
Jean-François Côté and Francis Douville Vigeant
3 Re-envisioning the legacy of Mind, Self and Society 40
Marie-Laurence Bordeleau-Payer and Jean-François Côté
4 Mead's movements of thought in the nineteenth century and the
shaping of a socio-historical approach to society 61
Francis Douville Vigeant
PART II MEAD'S CONCEPTUAL VIEWS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS
5 Mead as an interpreter of Darwin. The organism-environment
relationship, perspective, and sociality, in light of contemporary
evolutionism 82
Andrea Parravicini
6 The influence of William James's psychology on George H.
Mead's social psychology 107
Michela Bella
7 George Herbert Mead's concept of perspective 138
Baptiste Cornardeau
8 G.H. Mead and the cognitive sciences 163
Guido Baggio
9 Mead's account of aesthetic experience - a contextual assessment 191
Roberta Dreon
10 George Herbert Mead and Jessie Taft: women and feminism from
a social behaviorism point of view 207
Núria Sara Miras Boronat
11 Social psychology, history, and ethics: Mead on international-
mindedness 226
Matteo Santarelli
PART III MEAD AND HIS 'OTHERS'...
12 'A theoretical basis for practical work in the social sciences:'
Clifford Geertz's undergraduate encounter with George Herbert
Mead 239
Bijan Warner, Daniel R. Huebner and Matteo Bortolini
13 Social positioning theory and Mead on the social individual 256
Stephen Pratten
14 Reading, writing, and revolution: Mead's influence on James T.
Farrell and Grace Lee Boggs 279
Daniel R. Huebner
15 George Herbert Mead and Ernst Cassirer: an unexpected
encounter 303
Jean-François Côté
