Description
Book Synopsis* Introductory book devoted to the life and work of G.H. Mead *Part of the Key Contemporary Thinkers series * Comprehensive account of Mead's work, including the less well known aspects of his work * Useful on a range of advanced undergraduate and graduate courses .
Trade Review"A comprehensive critical guide [that] is a definite must-read for anyone with an interest in Mead."
Sociological Research Online "This book is a real gem. It does proper justice to the sophistication and originality of G. H. Mead’s intellectual project, whilst remaining remarkably lucid and accessible. Filipe Carreira da Silva’s approach brings Mead alive and provides a thorough understanding of his audience, his motivations for writing, his intellectual allies and foes and, above all, what he was trying to achieve. Carreira da Silva also explains the relevance of Mead’s writings for current debates in social and political philosophy, and he does so with analytical agility and imagination. I highly recommend this book."
Patrick Baert, University of Cambridge
"Drawing on previously obscure archives and impeccable scholarship, Filipe Carreira da Silva has broken extremely important new ground on one of the most important yet under-appreciated social thinkers of the twentieth century."
Donald Levine, University of Chicago
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements vi
1 Introduction and General Overview 1
2 Life and Work: 1863–1931 17
3 Mead's Social Psychology: Basic Concepts 28
4 The Social Self 42
5 Society, Mind and Self 56
6 Mead and Symbolic Interactionism 70
7 Mead and Twentieth-Century Sociology 91
8 Why Read Mead Today? 116
Notes 126
Bibliography 141
Index 152
