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(2014) Self and other, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
The concluding chapter of the book explores the question of whether the preceding investigation of self and other can help to elucidate the structure of the we. One initial question concerns whether we-intentionality presupposes and involves self-consciousness and other-consciousness, or whether it rather abolishes the difference between self and other. Another central question concerns the relation between the second-person singular and the first-person plural. Even if self-consciousness is retained in we-experience, the latter must modify the former. Might the adoption of a reciprocal second-person perspective, where I am aware of the other and at the same time implicitly aware of myself in the accusative as attended to or addressed by the other, play an important role?
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DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199590681.003.0015
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Zahavi, D. (2014). You, me, and we, in Self and other, Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp. 241-250.
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