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First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
Never before published, this book features George Herbert Mead 's
illuminating lectures on the Philosophy of Education at the
University of Chicago during the early 20th century. These lectures
provide unique insight into Mead 's educational thought and reveal
how his early psychological writings on the social character of
meaning and the social origin of reflective consciousness was
central in the development of what Mead referred to as his social
conception of education. The introduction to the book provides an
overview of Mead 's educational thought and places it against the
wider social, intellectual, and historical background of modern
educational concepts.
Never before published, this book features George Herbert Mead 's
illuminating lectures on the Philosophy of Education at the
University of Chicago during the early 20th century. These lectures
provide unique insight into Mead 's educational thought and reveal
how his early psychological writings on the social character of
meaning and the social origin of reflective consciousness was
central in the development of what Mead referred to as his social
conception of education. The introduction to the book provides an
overview of Mead 's educational thought and places it against the
wider social, intellectual, and historical background of modern
educational concepts.
George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) is a central, founding figure
of modern sociology, comparable to Karl Marx and Max Weber. Mead's
early work, prior to his posthumous publications that appeared
after 1932, is believed to be a series of articles contemporary
scholarship defines as disconnected. A previously unknown, never
published set of galleys for a book of essays by Mead, written
between 1892 and 1910, unites these articles into a logical
perspective. "Essays on Social Psychology," Mead's "first" book,
clearly locates him within a significantly different tradition and
network than documented in his posthumous volumes. The discovery of
this work is a major scholarly event. Instead of being abstract and
unemotional, as some scholars argue, Mead's early scholarship
focused on the significance of emotions, instincts, and childhood
as well as political issues underlying political problems in
Chicago. During these early years, he was involved with the
emerging Laboratory Schools at the University of Chicago which was
then the center of progressive education. These early topics,
interpretations, and scholarly networks are dramatically different
in these writings from those of Mead as a mature scholar. They
demonstrate that he was clearly making a transition from psychology
to social psychology at a time when the latter was in its infancy.
Mary Jo Deegan, a world-renowned Meadian scholar, has
comprehensively edited this volume, footnoting now obscure
references and authors. Her introduction explains how this
previously lost manuscript affects contemporary Meadian scholarship
and how it reflects the city and times in which he lived. Unlike
the posthumous volumes, assembled from lecture notes, "Essays in
Social Psychology" is the only book actually written by Mead and
challenges most current scholarship on him. The selections are
highly readable, surprisingly timely yet historically significant.
Psychologists, sociologists, and educators will find it immensely
important. George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) taught at the University
of Chicago from 1894 to 1931. His posthumous volumes are "The
Philosophy of the Present, Mind, Self, and Society," and "The
Philosophy of the Act." Mary Jo Deegan is professor of sociology at
the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. She is the author of "Jane
Addams and the Men of the Chicago School, 1892-1918," named by
"Choice" as among the outstanding academic books of 1989.
Over 500 letters from the correspondence of a Delaware political
figure in the Revolution and signer of the Declaration of
Independence, published for the first time.
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Saint Cajetan (Paperback)
George Herbert Ely; Edited by Brother Hermenegild Tosf; R. De Maulde De Claviere
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R384
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Saint Cajetan lived in Rome in the early 1500s. He went to Venice
and then returned to Rome to found the order of the Theatines.
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet
of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and
critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors
offer insights into their own work as well as providing an
accessible and passionate introduction to some of the greatest
poets of our literature. George Herbert (1593-1633) was educated at
Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was
appointed Reader in Rhetoric in 1618 and Public Orator in 1620. He
was a Greek and Latin scholar, was fluent in modern languages and
an accomplished musician. In 1626 he resigned his seat in
parliament and took holy orders, becoming Rector of Bemerton, a
tiny rural parish on Salisbury Plain, in 1630. The Temple,
Herbert's great structure of poems from which the present selection
is drawn, first appeared in 1633, the year of his death.
Herbert experimented brilliantly with a remarkable variety of
forms, from hymns and sonnets to "pattern poems," the shape of
which reveal their subjects. Such technical agility never seems
ostentatious, however, for precision of language and expression of
genuine feeling were the primary concerns of this poet who
admonished his readers to "dare to be true." An Anglican priest who
took his calling with deep seriousness, he brought to his work a
religious reverence richly allied with a playful wit and with
literary and musical gifts of the highest order. His best-loved
poems, from "The Collar" and "Jordan" to "The Altar" and "Easter
Wings," achieve a perfection of form and feeling, a rare
luminosity, and a timeless metaphysical grandeur.
The only collection of Mead's writings published during his
lifetime, these essays have heretofore been virtually inaccessible.
Reck has collected twenty-five essays representing the full range
and depth of Mead's thought. This penetrating volume will be of
interest to those in philosophy, sociology, and social psychology.
"The editor's well-organized introduction supplies an excellent
outline of this system in its development. In view of the scattered
sources from which these writings are gathered, it is a great
service that this volume renders not only to students of Mead, but
to historians."--H. W. Schneider, "Journal of the History of
Philosophy"
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The Temple (Hardcover)
George Herbert
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R469
R383
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A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound
editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most
famous book of verse as it was originally published. Designed by
the acclaimed Coralie Bickford-Smith and beautifully set, these
slim, A format volumes are the ultimate gift editions for poetry
lovers. On his deathbed George Herbert entrusted the manuscript of
The Temple to his friend Nicholas Ferrar, asking him to publish it
if he thought it was worthy. Herbert died in 1633 and the
collection was published the same year to great acclaim,
subsequently becoming one of the best-loved collections in the
English language. The Temple is an astounding collection of verse
poems: an extended meditation on man's relationship to God that is
characterised by Herbert's clarity and directness of style. It
includes such favourites as 'The Collar', 'The Pearl' and 'Love',
with its beautiful opening lines: 'Love bade me welcome; yet my
soul drew back, / Guilty of dust and sin'.
George Herbert Mead is widely recognized as one of the most
brilliantly original American pragmatists. Although he had a
profound influence on the development of social philosophy, he
published no books in his lifetime. This makes the lectures
collected in Mind, Self, and Society all the more remarkable, as
they offer a rare synthesis of his ideas. This collection gets to
the heart of Mead's meditations on social psychology and social
philosophy. Its penetrating, conversational tone transports the
reader directly into Mead's classroom as he teases out the genesis
of the self and the nature of the mind. The book captures his wry
humor and shrewd reasoning, showing a man comfortable quoting
Aristotle alongside Alice in Wonderland. Included in this edition
are an insightful foreword from leading Mead scholar Hans Joas, a
revealing set of textual notes by Daniel R. Huebner that detail the
text's origins, and a comprehensive bibliography of Mead's other
published writings. While Mead's lectures inspired countless
students, much of his brilliance has been lost to time. This
definitive edition ensures that Mead's ideas will carry on,
inspiring a new generation of thinkers.
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