Edited by Jean-François Côté, Department of Sociology, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada, Guido Baggio, Department of Philosophy, Communication and Performing Arts, Roma Tre University, Roma, Italy and Matteo Santarelli, Department of Philosophy, University of Bologna, Italy

‘The chapters in this intensely interesting collection illustrate the pathways along which “Mead” has been re-interpreted in recent decades. Beyond the empirical theorist of face-to-face interaction – the “symbolic interactionist” of American fame – Mead is here rediscovered as an extraordinarily broad-ranging thinker, in deep dialogue with European philosophical currents and dedicated to the repair of the most pressing social problems of the day. A highly significant contribution.’

• ContentsForeword viiiIntroduction to The Elgar Companion to George Herbert Mead xiJean-François Côté, Guido Baggio and Matteo SantarelliPART I MEAD’S WRITINGS1 G.H. Mead and the materiality of ideas 2Filipe Carreira da Silva2 The philosophy of the present: Mead’s foundational cosmology 26Jean-François Côté and Francis Douville Vigeant3 Re-envisioning the legacy of Mind, Self and Society 40Marie-Laurence Bordeleau-Payer and Jean-François Côté4 Mead’s movements of thought in the nineteenth century and theshaping of a socio-historical approach to society 61Francis Douville VigeantPART II MEAD’S CONCEPTUAL VIEWS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS5 Mead as an interpreter of Darwin. The organism-environmentrelationship, perspective, and sociality, in light of contemporaryevolutionism 82Andrea Parravicini6 The influence of William James’s psychology on George H.Mead’s social psychology 107Michela Bella7 George Herbert Mead’s concept of perspective 138Baptiste Cornardeau8 G.H. Mead and the cognitive sciences 163Guido Baggio9 Mead’s account of aesthetic experience – a contextual assessment 191Roberta Dreon10 George Herbert Mead and Jessie Taft: women and feminism froma social behaviorism point of view 207Núria Sara Miras Boronat11 Social psychology, history, and ethics: Mead on international-mindedness 226Matteo SantarelliPART III MEAD AND HIS ‘OTHERS’…12 ‘A theoretical basis for practical work in the social sciences:’Clifford Geertz’s undergraduate encounter with George HerbertMead 239Bijan Warner, Daniel R. Huebner and Matteo Bortolini13 Social positioning theory and Mead on the social individual 256Stephen Pratten14 Reading, writing, and revolution: Mead’s influence on James T.Farrell and Grace Lee Boggs 279Daniel R. Huebner15 George Herbert Mead and Ernst Cassirer: an unexpectedencounter 303Jean-François Côté

Edited by Jean-François Côté, Department of Sociology, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada, Guido Baggio, Department of Philosophy, Communication and Performing Arts, Roma Tre University, Roma, Italy and Matteo Santarelli, Department of Philosophy, University of Bologna, Italy

‘The chapters in this intensely interesting collection illustrate the pathways along which “Mead” has been re-interpreted in recent decades. Beyond the empirical theorist of face-to-face interaction – the “symbolic interactionist” of American fame – Mead is here rediscovered as an extraordinarily broad-ranging thinker, in deep dialogue with European philosophical currents and dedicated to the repair of the most pressing social problems of the day. A highly significant contribution.’

• ContentsForeword viiiIntroduction to The Elgar Companion to George Herbert Mead xiJean-François Côté, Guido Baggio and Matteo SantarelliPART I MEAD’S WRITINGS1 G.H. Mead and the materiality of ideas 2Filipe Carreira da Silva2 The philosophy of the present: Mead’s foundational cosmology 26Jean-François Côté and Francis Douville Vigeant3 Re-envisioning the legacy of Mind, Self and Society 40Marie-Laurence Bordeleau-Payer and Jean-François Côté4 Mead’s movements of thought in the nineteenth century and theshaping of a socio-historical approach to society 61Francis Douville VigeantPART II MEAD’S CONCEPTUAL VIEWS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS5 Mead as an interpreter of Darwin. The organism-environmentrelationship, perspective, and sociality, in light of contemporaryevolutionism 82Andrea Parravicini6 The influence of William James’s psychology on George H.Mead’s social psychology 107Michela Bella7 George Herbert Mead’s concept of perspective 138Baptiste Cornardeau8 G.H. Mead and the cognitive sciences 163Guido Baggio9 Mead’s account of aesthetic experience – a contextual assessment 191Roberta Dreon10 George Herbert Mead and Jessie Taft: women and feminism froma social behaviorism point of view 207Núria Sara Miras Boronat11 Social psychology, history, and ethics: Mead on international-mindedness 226Matteo SantarelliPART III MEAD AND HIS ‘OTHERS’…12 ‘A theoretical basis for practical work in the social sciences:’Clifford Geertz’s undergraduate encounter with George HerbertMead 239Bijan Warner, Daniel R. Huebner and Matteo Bortolini13 Social positioning theory and Mead on the social individual 256Stephen Pratten14 Reading, writing, and revolution: Mead’s influence on James T.Farrell and Grace Lee Boggs 279Daniel R. Huebner15 George Herbert Mead and Ernst Cassirer: an unexpectedencounter 303Jean-François Côté

Edited by Jean-François Côté, Department of Sociology, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada, Guido Baggio, Department of Philosophy, Communication and Performing Arts, Roma Tre University, Roma, Italy and Matteo Santarelli, Department of Philosophy, University of Bologna, Italy

‘The chapters in this intensely interesting collection illustrate the pathways along which “Mead” has been re-interpreted in recent decades. Beyond the empirical theorist of face-to-face interaction – the “symbolic interactionist” of American fame – Mead is here rediscovered as an extraordinarily broad-ranging thinker, in deep dialogue with European philosophical currents and dedicated to the repair of the most pressing social problems of the day. A highly significant contribution.’

• ContentsForeword viiiIntroduction to The Elgar Companion to George Herbert Mead xiJean-François Côté, Guido Baggio and Matteo SantarelliPART I MEAD’S WRITINGS1 G.H. Mead and the materiality of ideas 2Filipe Carreira da Silva2 The philosophy of the present: Mead’s foundational cosmology 26Jean-François Côté and Francis Douville Vigeant3 Re-envisioning the legacy of Mind, Self and Society 40Marie-Laurence Bordeleau-Payer and Jean-François Côté4 Mead’s movements of thought in the nineteenth century and theshaping of a socio-historical approach to society 61Francis Douville VigeantPART II MEAD’S CONCEPTUAL VIEWS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS5 Mead as an interpreter of Darwin. The organism-environmentrelationship, perspective, and sociality, in light of contemporaryevolutionism 82Andrea Parravicini6 The influence of William James’s psychology on George H.Mead’s social psychology 107Michela Bella7 George Herbert Mead’s concept of perspective 138Baptiste Cornardeau8 G.H. Mead and the cognitive sciences 163Guido Baggio9 Mead’s account of aesthetic experience – a contextual assessment 191Roberta Dreon10 George Herbert Mead and Jessie Taft: women and feminism froma social behaviorism point of view 207Núria Sara Miras Boronat11 Social psychology, history, and ethics: Mead on international-mindedness 226Matteo SantarelliPART III MEAD AND HIS ‘OTHERS’…12 ‘A theoretical basis for practical work in the social sciences:’Clifford Geertz’s undergraduate encounter with George HerbertMead 239Bijan Warner, Daniel R. Huebner and Matteo Bortolini13 Social positioning theory and Mead on the social individual 256Stephen Pratten14 Reading, writing, and revolution: Mead’s influence on James T.Farrell and Grace Lee Boggs 279Daniel R. Huebner15 George Herbert Mead and Ernst Cassirer: an unexpectedencounter 303Jean-François Côté