G.H. Mead


Autoria(s): Silva, Filipe Carreira da
Data(s)

19/05/2016

19/05/2016

2016

Resumo

G.H. Mead (1863-1931) oriented much of his intellectual efforts around three unavoidable questions for anyone living in a modern society: how are selfhood, knowledge, and politics understood and organized in such a society? Modern individuals continually seek answers to questions although nobody has ever come up with a definitive answer to them. Modernity, in other words, confronts us with inevitable problematics that fundamentally shape the way in which we think about certain topics. For the purposes of my discussion of Mead, I focus upon three of these modern problematics: science, selfhood, and democratic politics. But before I discuss Mead’s treatment of these problem areas, allow me to briefly situate Mead as a pragmatist in relation to Dewey and James within pragmatism.

Identificador

Revised version of the chapter: Silva, F. C. (2016) (in press). G.H. Mead. In Stones, R. (Ed.), Key Sociological Thinkers, 3rd ed. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

http://hdl.handle.net/10451/23738

Idioma(s)

eng

Publicador

Palgrave Macmillan

Direitos

openAccess

Palavras-Chave #Mead, George Herbert, 1863-1931 #Pragmatism #Social theory #Self #Rights
Tipo

bookPart