The Creativity of Action by Joas, Hans

The Creativity of Action (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780745617718)

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The Creativity of Action by Joas, Hans

The Creativity of Action

$36.25
The Creativity of Action by Joas, Hans

The Creativity of Action

$36.25
Format: Paperback
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Hans Joas is one of the foremost social theorists in Germany today. In this outstanding book he outlines the fundamentals of a new theory of action, drawing on philosophical pragmatism. The work is based upon Joas's celebrated study of George Herbert Mead, but also establishes direct ties between Mead's work and approaches drawn from German traditions of philosophical anthropology.

A major feature of Joas's theory is an emphasis on the creative character of human action. Human activity is not coincidentally, but in a fundamental sense, creative. The work contains new discussions of the nature of human intentions, the embodied character of human action and the character of intersubjectivity.

The problem of action is of crucial importance in both sociology and philosophy, and this book adds fresh impetus to the lively discussions current in the English-speaking world.



Author: Hans Joas
ISBN-10: 0745617719
ISBN-13: 9780745617718
Publisher: Polity Press
Language: English
Published: 10/01/1996
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72d
By Hans Joas
By Hans Joas
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Hans Joas is Professor of Sociology at the Free University of Berlin. He was also a Permanent Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies. From 2002 until 2011, he was the Director of the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt. He is also Visiting Professor of Sociology and Social Thought and a Member of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.

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