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George H. Mead
A key figure in American pragmatism, this influential philosopher helped shape the way scholars think about the self, society, and human interaction. His ideas became especially important in social psychology and symbolic interactionism.
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Creative Intelligence: Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude
by John Dewey, Boyd Henry Bode, Harold Chapman Brown, Horace Meyer Kallen, George H. Mead, Addison Webster Moore, Henry Waldgrave Stuart, James Hayden Tufts
About the author
Born in South Hadley, Massachusetts, on February 27, 1863, he studied at Oberlin College and Harvard before teaching at the University of Michigan and then at the University of Chicago. He spent most of his career in Chicago, where his teaching influenced generations of students and thinkers.
He is best known for work on the social nature of mind and self, and for ideas that later became central to symbolic interactionism. Although he published many articles during his lifetime, several of the books most closely associated with him were assembled and published after his death in 1931 from lectures and manuscripts prepared by his students.
His writing remains important in philosophy, sociology, and social psychology because it connects individual identity with communication, community, and everyday social life. That mix of clear human concerns and big intellectual reach has kept his work widely read long after his time.