George Herbert Mead in the Twenty-First Century

Table of Contents:
Preface Foreword Introduction: George Herbert Mead and the Chicago School of Pragmatism Part One: General Themes and Assessments George H. Mead as an Empirically Reasonable Philosopher: The “Philosophy of the Act” Reconsidered Mead’s Understanding of Movements of Thought The Concept of the Present and Historical Experience Part Two: Mead and the Twentieth Century The Relationality of Perspectives The Concept of Rule-Following in the Philosophy of George Herbert Mead Mead and the Bergson on Inner States, Self-Knowledge, and Expression The Self as Naturally and Socially Embedded but Also as So Much More Part Three: Mind, Self, and Social Psychology Resolving Two Key Problems in Mead’s Mind, Self, and Society Social-Psychological Externalism and the Coupling/Constitution Fallacy Embodied Mind and the Mimetic Basis for Taking the Role of the Other Games People Play: G. H. Mead’s Conception of Games and Play in a Contemporary Context From Others to the Other: A psychoanalytical Reading of George Herbert Mead Part Four: Social and Political Thought George Herbert Mead on Social and Economic Human Rights The Constitutive Role of Social Values and Political Power in G. H. Mead’s Reflections on Aesthetic Experience George Herbert mead on the Social Bases of Democracy Transforming Global Social Habits: G. H. Mead’s Pragmatist Contributions to Democratic Political Economy Index About the Contributors

About the Author :
Krzysztof (Chris) Piotr Skowronski, PhD, teaches Contemporary Philosophy, Aesthetics, Cultural Anthropology, Polish Philosophy, and American Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy, Opole University, Poland. He co-organizes annual conferences on American and European Values. He authored books: Values and Powers. Re-reading the Philosophical Tradition of American Pragmatism (Rodopi in 2009) and Santayana and America. Values, Liberties, Responsibility (Cambridge Scholars 2007). He co-edited books: (with Matthew Flamm) Under Any Sky. Contemporary Readings of George Santayana (Cambridge Scholars 2007); (with Matthew Flamm and John Lachs) American and European Values: Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives (Cambridge Scholars 2008); (with Larry Hickman, Matthew Flamm and Jennifer Rea) The Continuing Relevance of John Dewey: Reflections of Aesthetics, Morality, Science, and Society (Rodopi 2011); (with Kelly Parker) Josiah Royce for the Twenty First Century (Lexington 2012); and (with Cornelis de Waal) The Normative Thought of Charles S. Peirce (Fordham, 2012). F. Thomas Burke, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina, USA. Burke is the author of Dewey’s New Logic (University of Chicago Press, 1994), and What Pragmatism Was (Indiana University Press, 2013), and is co-editor (with Micah Hester and Robert Talisse) of Dewey’s Logical Theory: New Studies and Interpretations (Vanderbilt University Press, 2002).

Review :
The reception of G.H.Mead's seminal ideas has gone through enormous ups and downs. Little known outside Chicago during his lifetime, he became, from the 1930s on, a classic of sociology through some of his posthumous publications. In connnection with a widespread renaissance of pragmatism in the 1980s, he was recognized as a crucial member of this philosophical school. And while the enthusiasm may have abated a little bit around 2000, this book is an indicator for the continuing vitality of Mead's thinking on the international scene. This collection is a welcome addition to the growing field of Mead studies.