George Herbert Mead: Self, Language and the World

Contents
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Preface
......Page 9
Introduction:
Biographical Notes......Page 11
Mead at Michigan, 1891-1894......Page 19
Mead at the University of Chicago, 1894-1931......Page 22
Mead’s Personal Traits......Page 32
Mead as a Conversationalist......Page 34
1. Bio-Social Man: Functional Identity and Individual Differences......Page 41
The Self, the Pauline Doctrine, the Id, and the Superego......Page 43
No Single or Separate Self, and the Phenomenological Fallacy......Page 45
The Self: Cartesianism versus Existentialism......Page 47
Intelligence, Learning, and Perception......Page 48
Existential Identity, Existential Differences, and Functional Identity or Sameness......Page 50
Significant Symbols and the Awareness of Sharable Responses......Page 55
The Physical Thing: Awareness and Manipulation......Page 56
The Objective Reality of Perspectives......Page 58
Absolute Perspectives versus Relative Social Perspectives......Page 60
The Principle of Sociality......Page 61
2. Mead’s Intentions and His Basic Terms......Page 63
Basic Terms......Page 65
The Nature of the Self......Page 84
The Generalized Other and the Self......Page 87
Play: An Early Stage in the Development of the Generalized Other......Page 88
The Game and the Generalized Other......Page 89
The Me......Page 94
The I and the Growth of the Self and the Act......Page 95
The Hand and the Central Nervous System and Reflective Thinking......Page 98
The Hand and the Physical Thing......Page 101
Introduction......Page 104
Mead’s Social Behaviorism......Page 106
Two Kinds of Gestures......Page 108
Gestures and Meanings......Page 110
The Claim of Ordinary Language Exponents......Page 112
“Private” Language and the “Problem “of Solipsism......Page 115
Universals......Page 116
Family Resemblance......Page 119
Whiteheadian Eternal Objects: Objects of Recognition......Page 120
Lower Animals: Recognition and Language......Page 123
5. The World That Is There......Page 126
Phenomenalism, Positivism, and the World That Is There......Page 131
Restructuring the World That Is There......Page 136
6. Mead’s Theory of the Physical Thing......Page 141
The Meaning of ‘Physical Thing’......Page 143
The Nature of the Inside of the Physical Thing......Page 146
How We Experience Physical Things or the Inside of Objects......Page 147
The Social Basis for the Concept, the Meaning, of the Physical Thing......Page 150
7. Mead’s Theory of Perception......Page 155
Veridical and Nonveridical Perception and Deception by the Senses......Page 163
Concerning Lower-Animal Perception......Page 166
Recent Experiments in Perception and the Manipulatory Phase of the Act......Page 169
Perception and the Conservation of Physical Objects......Page 170
8. Primary and Secondary Qualities......Page 172
9. Thinking: What Happens When One Thinks......Page 182
What It Means to Know......Page 197
10.
Creativity......Page 201
11. Mead’s Theory of the Past......Page 210
12. Mead’s Principle of Sociality......Page 226
The Meaning of “System”......Page 227
“Social” and “Sociality”......Page 228
What Mead Hoped to Accomplish by the Principle of Sociality......Page 229
Sociality and Scientific Data......Page 232
Sociality and Lower Animals......Page 234
Sociality and Physical Phenomena......Page 235
Sociality and Creative Intelligence......Page 239
13. The Objective Reality of Perspectives......Page 245
14. The Aesthetic Experience......Page 256
The Aesthetic Experience: Manipulation and Consummation......Page 257
Science, Technology, and Aesthetics......Page 258
Natural Expressions of Aesthetic Experience......Page 260
Art Objects and Aesthetic Experience......Page 261
15. Ethical Theory......Page 266
Three Levels of Human Conduct......Page 267
The Character and Aim of Ethical Theory......Page 268
The Inadequacy of Kant’s Ethics......Page 271
A Naturalistic Basis for Moral Conduct......Page 273
Moral Problems at the Third Level......Page 276
Conscience, Duty, Obligation, and Guilt......Page 281
Mead’s Published Works......Page 287
Unpublished Works......Page 290
Reviews of Mead’s Works......Page 291
Articles and Books about Mead......Page 292
Other Works Cited......Page 299
Index
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