Books by Daniel R. Huebner
Becoming Mead: The Social Process of Academic Knowledge
George Herbert Mead is a foundational figure in sociology, best known for his book Mind, Self, and Society, which was put together after his death from course notes taken by stenographers and students and from unpublished manuscripts. Mead, however, never taught a course primarily housed in a sociology department, and he wrote about a wide variety of topics far outside of the concerns for which he is predominantly remembered―including experimental and comparative psychology, the history of science, and relativity theory. In short, he is known in a discipline in which he did not teach for a book he did not write.
In Becoming Mead, Daniel R. Huebner traces the ways in which knowledge has been produced by and about the famed American philosopher. Instead of treating Mead’s problematic reputation as a separate topic of study from his intellectual biography, Huebner considers both biography and reputation as social processes of knowledge production. He uses Mead as a case study and provides fresh new answers to critical questions in the social sciences, such as how authors come to be considered canonical in particular disciplines, how academics understand and use others’ works in their research, and how claims to authority and knowledge are made in scholarship. Becoming Mead provides a novel take on the history of sociology, placing it in critical dialogue with cultural sociology and the sociology of knowledge and intellectuals.
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The Timeliness of George Herbert Mead
by Hans Joas, Daniel R. Huebner
Introduction / Hans Joas and Daniel R. Huebner -- History, historiography, historical sociology -- Changing "movements of thought in the nineteenth century": historical text and historical context / Charles Camic -- On Mead's long lost history of science / Daniel R. Huebner -- Pragmatism and historicism: Mead's philosophy of temporality and the logic of historiography / Hans Joas -- George Herbert Mead and the promise of pragmatist democracy / Robert Westbrook -- The theory of intersubjectivity as a theory of the human being: George Herbert Mead and the German tradition of philosophical anthropology / Karl-Siegbert Rehberg -- Nature, environment, process -- Naturalism and despair: George Herbert Mead and evolution in the 1880s / Trevor Pearce -- George Herbert Mead as a socio-environmental thinker / Bradley H. Brewster and Antony J. Puddephatt -- Social worlds: the legacy of Mead's social ecology in Chicago sociology / Daniel Cefaï -- Mead, Whitehead, and the sociality of nature / Michael L. Thomas -- Cognition, conscience, language -- Mead, the theory of mind, and the problem of others / Ryan McVeigh -- Imitation and taking the attitude of the other / Kelvin Jay Booth -- Mead meets Tomasello: pragmatism, the cognitive sciences, and the origins of human communication and sociality / Frithjof Nungesser -- Conscience as ecological participation and the maintenance of moral perplexity / Joshua Daniel -- Presentation and re-presentation: language, content, and the reconstruction of experience / Roman Madzia -- G. H. Mead's understanding of the nature of speech in the light of contemporary research / Timothy Gallagher
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