George Herbert Mead Book order (chronological)

Die von Hans Joas besorgte zweibändige Auswahl aus Meads Schriften folgt zwei Leitlinien. Zum einen repräsentiert sie Meads Werk durch Texte, die nicht aus der Kompilation studentischer Nachschriften seiner Vorlesungen entsprangen, sondern die Mead selbst noch zum Druck gegeben oder zumindest abschließend formuliert hat. Zum anderen wird Meads Werk in seiner ganzen thematischen Vielfalt repräsentiert. Der zweite Band hat seinen Schwerpunkt in Schriften des späten Mead zur Konstitutionstheorie der Naturwissenschaft und zur Geschichtsphilosophie und schließt mit einer Auswahl aus der reichhaltigen politischen Publizistik George Herbert Meads.

Written from the standpoint of the social behaviorist, this treatise contains the heart of Mead's position on social psychology. The analysis of language is of major interest, as it supplied for the first time an adequate treatment of the language mechanism in relation to scientific and philosophical issues."If philosophical eminence be measured by the extent to which a man's writings anticipate the focal problems of a later day and contain a point of view which suggests persuasive solutions to many of them, then George Herbert Mead has justly earned the high praise bestowed upon him by Dewey and Whitehead as a 'seminal mind of the very first order.'"—Sidney Hook, The Nation

One of the most brilliantly original of American pragmatists, George Herbert Mead published surprisingly few major papers and not a single book during his lifetime. Yet his influence on American sociology and social psychology since World War II has been exceedingly strong.This volume is a revised and enlarged edition of the book formerly published under the title The Social Psychology of George Herbert Mead . It contains selections from Mead's posthumous Mind, Self, and Society; Movements of Thought in the Nineteenth Century; The Philosophy of the Act; and The Philosophy of the Present , together with an incisive, newly revised, introductory essay by Anselm Strauss on the importance of Mead for contemporary social psychology."Required reading for the social scientist."—Milton L. Barron, Nation