The work of American pragmatist George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) had a strong influence in fields ranging from metaphysics and ethics to sociology and social psychology. In this book, Hans Joas interweaves Mead's political and intellectual biography with the development of his theories. The key concept of the study is Opractical intersubjectivity - a term Joas introduces to characterize the link implicit in Mead's work between a theory of intersubjectivity...