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19The Mediating Self: Mead, Sartre, and Self-DeterminationYale University Press. 1986.In this pathbreaking book Mitchell Aboulafia considers the development of the sense of self by critically analyzing the philosophies of George Herbert Mead--an American pragmatist who argues that self-consciousness results from social interaction through language and symbol--and of Jean-Paul Sartre, the existentialist who maintains that consciousness is free to create the self. Building on their work, Aboulafia provides an original analysis of consciousness and self-determination.
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56Was George Herbert Mead a Feminist?Hypatia 8 (2). 1993.George Herbert Mead was a dedicated progressive and internationalist who strove to realize his political convictions through participation in numerous civic organizations in Chicago. These convictions informed and were informed by his approach to philosophy. This article addresses the bonds between Mead's philosophy, social psychology, and his support of women's rights through an analysis of a letter he wrote to his daughter-in-law regarding her plans for a career.
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Creativity in George Herbert Mead (review)Texas Journal of Ideas, History, and Culture 14 (1). 1991.
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Sandra B. Rosenthal and Patrick L. Bourgeois, "Mead and Merleau-Ponty: Toward a Common Vision" (review)Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 28 (4): 868. 1992.
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11Habermas and Pragmatism (edited book)Routledge. 2002.There are few living thinkers who have enjoyed the eminence and reown of Jürgen Hamermas. His work has been highly influential not only in philosopy, but also in the fields of politics, sociology and law. This is the first collection dedicated to exploring the connections between his body of work ahd America's most significant philosophical movement, pragmatism. Habermas and Pragmatism considers the influence of pragmatism on Habermas's thought and the tensions between Habermasian social theory …Read more
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4Expressivism and Mead's social selfIn John R. Shook & Joseph Margolis (eds.), A Companion to Pragmatism, Wiley-blackwell. 2006.
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Social Experience and the WorldIn Lenore Langsdorf Andrew R. Smith (ed.), Classical American Pragmatism: Its Contemporary Vitality, . pp. 179-194. 1999.
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39The Philosophy of John William Miller (review)International Studies in Philosophy 25 (3): 116-117. 1993.
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168Mead, Sartre: Self, object, and reflectionPhilosophy and Social Criticism 11 (2): 63-86. 1986.Sartre seeks both to overcome solipsism and clarify how the individual becomes an object—with a seemingly fixed char acter—through his account of The Look in Being and Nothingness. While his description of how The Look of the other transforms one into an object may at first appear to be confirmed by experience, the account proves to be inade quate as a refutation of solipsism and in showing exactly how one becomes an object. On the other hand, G.H. Mead has a convincing approach to how the self …Read more
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30George Herbert Mead, 1863–1931In Armen Marsoobian & John Ryder (eds.), The Blackwell Guide to American Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 2004.This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Intellectual Influences Sociality Self and Society.
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Mead and the Social SelfIn R. Burch H. Saatkamp (ed.), Frontiers in American Philosophy, . pp. 102-111. 1992.
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From Domination to RecognitionIn Carol C. Gould (ed.), Beyond Domination: New Perspectives on Women and Philosophy, Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 175-185. 1984.
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94Hegel's dialectic and Marx's manuscripts of 1844Studies in East European Thought 18 (1): 33-44. 1978.
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The Cosmopolitan Imagination: The Renewal of Critical Social Theory (review)Teachers College Record. 2011.
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A (neo) American in Paris: Bourdieu, Mead, and PragmatismIn Richard Shusterman (ed.), Bourdieu: A Critical Reader, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 153-174. 1999.
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33Self-Consciousness and the Quasi-Epic of the MasterIn Philosophy, Social Theory, and the Thought of George Herbert Mead, Suny Press. pp. 223--248. 1991.
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34George Herbert Mead and the Unity of the SelfEuropean Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 8 (1). 2016.After more than seventy-five years of scholarship on Mead’s notion of the self, commentators still debate the meaning of the term. There are those who argue that it should be understood primarily as a socially constructed “me,” while others claim that the self is a combination of the spontaneous “I” and the “me.” In addition, there are those who emphasize facets of the self that do not fit neatly into either of these two camps. Support for various interpretations of the self can in fact be found…Read more
Boston College
PhD
Bronx, New York, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |
19th Century Philosophy |
20th Century Philosophy |
European Philosophy |