George Herbert Mead: tělo, mysl a svět – Madzia Roman (2014)

The book George Herbert Mead: Body, Mind, and World is the first comprehensive monograph discussing Mead in the Czech context. Its subject is the presentation and analysis of the naturalistic philosophy of action of this thinker and its subsequent application to various philosophical problems, such as the problem of knowledge, self-consciousness, social constructionism, ethics, or the philosophy of history. The central theme of this study is the problem of epistemological constructionism. In this regard, the author's main argument is the assertion that the construction of our natural world does not take place 'in our heads', but in practical action and the active engagement of environmental structures in our purpose-driven activities. The work is divided into three chapters. The first deals with the foundations of Mead's theory of action (act), as well as an attempt to introduce this theory into constructive discussion with currents of the philosophy of mind and cognitive sciences, collectively referred to as 'situated cognition' (A. Clark, D. D. Hutto, M. Johnson, H. Maturana, A. Noë, and others). In the second chapter, the author focuses on the genesis and analysis of Mead's concept of the significant symbol, (self)consciousness, and communication. In the third chapter, he shows the place of these theories in Mead's social psychology,…