George Herbert Mead on Social Psychology (Heritage of Sociology Series)1 review George Herbert Mead University Of Chicago Press, 1964 Social Phychology & Sociology Mead, unhappy had never written a book, but this book is him ideas, and is the only phylosopher that makes a way between nature science and culture science. he makes the link between concrete & abstract             Mind, Self, and Society: From the Standpoint of a Social Behaviorist (Works of George Herbert Mead)1 review George Herbert Mead University Of Chicago Press, 1967 The founding stone of symbolic interactionist theory This books represents the foundation for a major sociological approach - symbolic interactionism. The essential premise of symbolic interactionism is that all human action is essentially symbolic and that society is to be understood, not as a closed system to be studied in abstraction, but as a ...             Habermas and Pragmatism1 review Mitchell Aboulafia, Myra Bookman, ... Routledge, 2002 Definitely worth buying! If your interests revolve around deliberative democracy, philosophy of language, Habermas' work, or American philosophical pragmatism, then this book is definitely worth buying. The editor, Mitchell Aboulafia, is a well-known thinker in his own right; the range and quality of the contributions ...             Redistribution or Recognition?: A Political-Philosophical Exchange Nancy Fraser, Axel Honneth Verso, 2003 "Recognition" has become a keyword of our time, but its relation to economic "redistribution" remains unclear. This volume stages a debate between two philosophers, one North American, the other German, who hold different views of the relation of redistribution to recognition. Axel Honneth conceives recognition as the fundamental, over-arching moral category, potentially encompassing ...             The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)3 reviews Jürgen Habermas The MIT Press, 1990 Excellent overview of 200 centuries of thought + Are You Old Enough To Read This Book? + Leaves no stone unturned This is truly a masterpiece. Especially if you're somebody schooled in the incredibly repetitive and tedious Anglo-Saxon tradition, this book will surely be a revelation. You'll need some philosophical training to understand a lot of this, but if you want a brilliant, sweeping evaluation of most ...             George Herbert Mead: THE MAKING OF A SOCIAL PRAGMATIST1 review Gary A. Cook University of Illinois Press, 1993 THE George Herbert Mead biography I would not have found this book but for the fact that the author (Gary Cook) is my advisor, professor, and friend here at Beloit College. He introduced me to the works of Mead, as well as the other great American pragmatists (C.S. Peirce, William James, etc). A better professor than writer, but ...             The Philosophy of the Present (Great Books in Philosophy)1 review George Herbert Mead Prometheus Books, 2002 A Great Book Indeed Mead is one of the key American pragmatists, and this book is his most important philosophical essay. The subject is primarily metaphysics: a relativist theory of time and space and the objective character of perspectives. So the book is for the most part quite abstract and therefore difficult, but ...             George Herbert Mead: A Unifying Theory for Sociology John D. Baldwin Kendall Hunt Pub Co, 2002 In this concise, readable synthesis of Mead's work in the social sciences, the breadth, scope and continued relevance of his pragmatic philosophy is emphasised. Baldwin gives an overview of the components of Mead's theoretical system, the philosophical foundations of his unified theory and the applications of his work in many different areas of social inquiry.             The Principles of Psychology, Vol.16 reviews William James Cosimo Classics, 2007 A road not taken + Good job by Amazon + Broad, deep, brilliant + A masterful challenge to contemporary cognitive science + The Bible             Creativity in George Herbert Mead: Volume IV Pete A.Y. Gunter University Press of America, 1990 The main contributor to this volume is David Louis Miller of the University of Texas at Austin. Both a student of Mead's and an editor and defender of his thought, Miller attempts in his essay and subsequent responses to demonstrate both the overall coherence of Mead's philosophy and the extent to which that philosophy makes (in a social context) room for the concept of individual creativity. ...             The Postnational Constellation: Political Essays (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)1 review Jürgen Habermas The MIT Press, 2001 Gets me interested in political philosophy I started noticing the works of Habermas because of his discourse ethics and its affinity with Kant's position. I never really had much interests in political / social philosophy (e.g. Locke, Hobbes, Marx, Weber, Freud, etc.) but this book changed me. The issue addressed by the keynote essay ...             Pragmatism and Social Theory Hans Joas University Of Chicago Press, 1993 Rising concerns among scholars about the intellectual and cultural foundations of democracy have led to a revival of interest in the American philosophical tradition of pragmatism. In this book, Hans Joas shows how pragmatism can link divergent intellectual efforts to understand the social contexts of human knowledge, individual freedom, and democratic culture. Along with pragmatism's impact on ...             Understanding John Dewey: Nature and Cooperative Intelligence (International Studies in Philosophy)1 review James Campbell Open Court Publishing Company, 1995 This is a great introduction to an important thinker. This is a great introduction to an important and often underrated thinker. This introduction is clear and well written so that it can serve as a great introduction to a layperson and not just a philosophy student. Unfortunately Dewey is one of those figures whose work seems to be better known ...             Classical American Pragmatism: ITS CONTEMPORARY VITALITY University of Illinois Press, 1999             The Later Works of John Dewey, Volume 12, 1925 - 1953: 1938, Logic: The Theory of Inquiry (Collected Works of ... John Dewey Southern Illinois University Press, 2008 Heralded as “the crowning work of a great career,” Logic: The Theory of Inquiry was widely reviewed. To Evander Bradley McGilvary, the work assured De­wey “a place among the world’s great logicians.” William Gruen thought “No treatise on logic ever written has had as direct and vital an impact on social life as Dewey’s will have.” Paul ...             The Theory of Communicative Action, Volume 2: Lifeworld and System: A Critique of Functionalist Reason1 review Jurgen Habermas Beacon Press, 1985 The Theory of Communicative Action, Volume 2 This is the second volume of the two that constitute "The Theory of Communicative Action" (the first volume subtitle is "Reason and the Rationalization of Society"). The first volume was published in English in 1984, while the second volume appeared in 1987. The two volumes are not independent ...             Recognition and Power: Axel Honneth and the Tradition of Critical Social Theory Bert van den Brink, David Owen Cambridge University Press, 2007 The topic of recognition has come to occupy a central place in contemporary debates in social and political theory. Rooted in Hegel's work, developed by George Herbert Mead and Charles Taylor, it has been given renewed expression in the recent program for Critical Theory developed by Axel Honneth in his book The Struggle for Recognition. Honneth's research program offers an empirically insightful ...             The Struggle for Recognition: The Moral Grammar of Social Conflicts (Studies in Contemporary German Social ...1 review Axel Honneth The MIT Press, 1996 Meadian Variations Although you'd hardly know it by looking at recent sales, Axel Honneth is one of the world's major intellectuals; and has perhaps the most advanced sensibility in social theory today, as evidenced by this book and his earlier *Critique of Power*. Both are crisp, lucid expositions of themes drawn ...             Phenomenology of Spirit (Galaxy Books)47 reviews G. W. F. Hegel Oxford University Press, USA, 1979 Kant go all the way + Solid Version + good book good translation + This Book Is a Theory of Creation and Applies Plato's Negative             A Companion to Pragmatism (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy) Wiley-Blackwell, 2006 A Companion to Pragmatism, comprised of 38 newly commissioned essays, provides comprehensive coverage of one of the most vibrant and exciting fields of philosophy today. Unique in depth and coverage of classical figures and their philosophies as well as pragmatism as a living force in philosophy. Chapters include discussions on philosophers such as John Dewey, Jürgen Habermas and Hilary ...