The Timeliness of George Herbert Mead
Hans Joas and Daniel R. Huebner
Abstract
The Timeliness of George Herbert Mead brings together a range of scholars who provide detailed analyses of Mead’s importance to innovative fields of scholarship, including cognitive science, environmental studies, democratic epistemology, social ethics, non-teleological historiography, and the history of the natural and social sciences. The volume is divided into three main areas in which Mead’s thinking has inspired contemporary work. The first is the area of history, historiography, and historical sociology. The second follows from one of the fundamental reorientations of intellectual and po ... More
The Timeliness of George Herbert Mead brings together a range of scholars who provide detailed analyses of Mead’s importance to innovative fields of scholarship, including cognitive science, environmental studies, democratic epistemology, social ethics, non-teleological historiography, and the history of the natural and social sciences. The volume is divided into three main areas in which Mead’s thinking has inspired contemporary work. The first is the area of history, historiography, and historical sociology. The second follows from one of the fundamental reorientations of intellectual and political life in recent decades: the turn to a greater awareness of environmental problems, both in an empirical and in a normative sense, and the rethinking of earlier assumptions about “man and nature” in light of this turn. And the third has to do with the outburst of new research in neurobiology, brain studies, and evolutionary psychology. Edited and introduced by Hans Joas and Daniel R. Huebner, the volume as a whole makes a coherent statement that places Mead in dialogue with current research, pushing these domains of scholarship forward while also revitalizing the growing literature on an author who has an ongoing and major influence on sociology, psychology, and philosophy.
Keywords:
George Herbert Mead,
cognitive science,
environmental studies,
philosophy,
sociology,
psychology,
history,
historiography,
democracy,
pragmatism
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780226376943 |
| Published to Chicago Scholarship Online: May 2017 |
DOI:10.7208/chicago/9780226377131.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Hans Joas, editor
Humboldt University of Berlin/University of Chicago
Daniel R. Huebner, editor
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
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