1st Edition

Reintroducing George Herbert Mead

By Daniel R. Huebner Copyright 2022
122 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

122 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

122 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

George Herbert Mead has long been known for his social theory of meaning and the ‘self’ - an approach which becomes all the more relevant in light of the ways we develop and represent ourselves online. But recent scholarship has shown that Mead’s pragmatic philosophy can help us understand a much wider range of contemporary issues including how humans and natural environments mutually influence... Read more

1. Mead as Public Intellectual and Social Theorist

2. Embodied Social Action: The Self, Cognition, Agency, and Communication

3. Social Process: Emerging Social Structure and the Practices of Democratic Politics

4. The Natural World as Social: Time, Materiality, and Environment

Bibliography

Biography

Daniel R. Huebner is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA. He is the author of Becoming Mead: The Social Process of Academic Knowledge and the co-editor of Mind, Self, and Society: The Definitive Edition and The Timeliness of George Herbert Mead.