George Herbert Mead was an American sociologist, philosopher, and psychologist, who was associated with the ‘University of Chicago.’ He is remembered as one of the most significant pragmatists in history. He is also known as a pioneer of symbolic interactionism and what is now known as the Chicago sociological tradition. Some of his most prominent works were on social philosophy, the theory of the self, and the philosophy of science. He wrote extensively on the importance of “language,” “play,” “game,” and the “generalized other” in forming the self. He continued teaching at the ‘University of Chicago’ till his death in 1931. Although he had a rich body of work, his works were never published as books before his death. Four of his major posthumous publications were ‘The Philosophy of the Present’ (1932), ‘Mind, Self, and Society’ (1934), ‘Movements of Thought in the Nineteenth Century’ (1936), and ‘The Philosophy of the Act’ (1938).
