G.H. Mead

Filipe Carreira da Silva is an Assistant Researcher at the University of Lisbon.

"A comprehensive critical guide [that] is a definite must-read for anyone with an interest in Mead."Sociological Research Online "This book is a real gem. It does proper justice to the sophistication and originality of G. H. Mead’s intellectual project, whilst remaining remarkably lucid and accessible. Filipe Carreira da Silva’s approach brings Mead alive and provides a thorough understanding of his audience, his motivations for writing, his intellectual allies and foes and, above all, what he was trying to achieve. Carreira da Silva also explains the relevance of Mead’s writings for current debates in social and political philosophy, and he does so with analytical agility and imagination. I highly recommend this book."Patrick Baert, University of Cambridge"Drawing on previously obscure archives and impeccable scholarship, Filipe Carreira da Silva has broken extremely important new ground on one of the most important yet under-appreciated social thinkers of the twentieth century."Donald Levine, University of Chicago

• Acknowledgements vi1 Introduction and General Overview 12 Life and Work: 1863–1931 173 Mead's Social Psychology: Basic Concepts 284 The Social Self 425 Society, Mind and Self 566 Mead and Symbolic Interactionism 707 Mead and Twentieth-Century Sociology 918 Why Read Mead Today? 116Notes 126Bibliography 141Index 152