Hans Joas is one of the foremost social theorists in Germany today. Based on Joas’s celebrated study of George Herbert Mead, this work reevaluates the contribution of American pragmatism and European
Georg Luk?cs was one of the most controversial Marxist philosophers ofthis century. In this book, however, he appears in another guise: as a literaryhistorian in the tradition of Sainte-Beuve and Beli
