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The Collected Letters of Henry Northrup Castle
George Herbert Mead, one of America's most important and influential philosophers, a founder of pragmatism, social psychology, and symbolic interactionism, was also a keen observer of American culture and early modernism. In the period from the 1870s to 1895, Henry Northrup Castle maintained a correspondence with family members and with Mead-his best friend at Oberlin College and brother-in-law-that reveals many of the intellectual, economic, and cultural forces that shaped American thought in that complex era. Close friends of John Dewey, Jane Addams, and other leading Chicago Progressives, the author of these often intimate letters comments frankly on pivotal events affecting higher education, developments at Oberlin College, Hawaii (where the Castles lived), progressivism, and the general angst that many young intellectuals were experiencing in early modern America. The letters, drawn from the Mead-Castle collection at the University of Chicago, were collected and edited by Mead after the tragic death of Henry Castle in a shipping accident in the North Sea. Working with his wife Helen Castle (one of Henry's sisters), he privately published fifty copies of the letters to record an important relationship and as an intellectual history of two progressive thinkers at the end of the nineteenth century. American historians, such as Robert Crunden and Gary Cook, have noted the importance of the letters to historians of the late nineteenth century. The letters are made available here using the basic Mead text of 1902. Additional insights into the connection between Mead, John Dewey, Henry and Harriet Castle, and Hawaii's progressive kindergarten system are provided by the foundation's executive director Alfred L. Castle. Marvin Krislov, president of Oberlin College, has added additional comments on the importance of the letters to understanding the intellectual relationship that flourished at Oberlin College. Published with the support of the Samuel N. and Mary Castle Foundation.
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G.H. Mead
This book introduces social scientists to the ideas of George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) - one of the most original yet neglected thinkers of early twentieth century sociology.
Mead is an exceptional case amongst sociological classics in that, until now, there has been no comprehensive reader of his work. As the first one-volume, comprehensive edited collection of Mead’s published and unpublished writing, this book fills this gap. It is the first to critically assess all of Mead's writings and draw out the aspects that are central to his system of thought. The book is divided into three parts (social psychology, science and epistemology, and democratic politics), comprising a total of 30 chapters - a third of which are published here for the first time.
G.H. Mead: A Reader provides a unique and timely contribution to the understanding of this key theorist. It is essential reading for both undergraduate and postgraduate students in the fields of sociology, social psychology, philosophy of social science, social and cultural anthropology, and social and political theory.
Filipe Carreira da Silva is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, and Senior Member of Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, UK. He is the author of Mead and Modernity: Science, Selfhood and Democratic Politics (2010 Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award, Section on the History of Sociology, American Sociological Association).
Part I – Mead on the social self Section i. The statement of the problem 1. The Definition of the Psychical 2. Social Psychology as Counterpart to Physiological Psychology 3. On the Self and Teleological Behavior Section ii. The \"I\" and the \"Me\" as phases of the self 4. What Social Objects Must Psychology Presuppose? 5. The Mechanism of Social Consciousness 6. The Social Self Section iii. The self and the social order 7. A Behavioristic Account of the Significant Symbol 8. The Genesis of the Self and Social Control 9. On the state and social control 10. Cooley's Contribution to American Social Thought Part II – Mead on science and epistemology Section i. The statement of the problem 11. Suggestions Toward a Theory of the Philosophical Disciplines 12. On Darwin’s Theory of Evolution 13. The Nature of Scientific Knowledge Section ii. History and philosophy of science 14. The origins of Greek philosophy 15. The dualism of representational consciousness and a mechanical world 16. A Pragmatic Theory of Truth Section iii. Science applied 17. Science in social practice 18. On social consciousness and social science Section iv. Time and social order 19. The Objective Reality of Perspectives 20. The Nature of the Past Part III – Mead, a radical democrat Section i. Moral and political philosophy 21. The Philosophical Basis of Ethics 2. Natural Rights and the Theory of the Political Institution 23. Scientific Method and the Moral Sciences Section ii. Crime, social reform and labour relations 24. On the Role of Social Settlements 25. Social Bearings of Industrial Education 26. The Psychology of Punitive Justice Section iii. War, national identity and citizenship 27. The Psychological Basis of Internationalism 28. On Nationalism, Industrial Rights, and Social Conflict 29. How Can a Sense of Citizenship Be Secured? 30. National-Mindedness and International-Mindedness
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