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Mead and Modernity : Science, Selfhood, and Democratic Politics.

Filipe Carreira da Silva addresses the basic questions 'How should we read Mead?' and 'Why should we read Mead today' by showing that the history of ideas and theory-building are closely-related endeavors. Following a contextualist approach in exploring the meaning of Mead's...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Carreira da Silva, Filipe
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Filipe Carreira da Silva addresses the basic questions 'How should we read Mead?' and 'Why should we read Mead today' by showing that the history of ideas and theory-building are closely-related endeavors. Following a contextualist approach in exploring the meaning of Mead's writings, Carreira da Silva reads the entire corpus of Mead's published and unpublished writings in light of the context in which they were originally produced, from concrete events like the American involvement in World War I to moregeneral debates like that of the nature of modernity. Mead and Modernity attests to the re.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (253 pages)
ISBN:9780739150054
0739150057