The Meaning of the Body: Aesthetics of Human Understanding by Johnson Mark

Author:Johnson, Mark [Johnson, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012-06-28T20:00:00+00:00

When the introspectionist thinks he has withdrawn into a wholly private realm of events disparate in kind from other events, made out of mental stuff, he is only turning his attention to his own soliloquy. And soliloquy is the product and reflex of converse with others; social communication not an effect of soliloquy. If we had not talked with others and they with us, we should never talk to and with ourselves. Because of converse, social give and take, various organic attitudes become an assemblage of persons engaged in converse, conferring with one another, exchanging distinctive experiences. . . . Through speech a person dramatically identifies himself with potential acts and deeds; he plays many roles, not in successive stages of life but in a contemporaneously enacted drama. Thus mind emerges. (Dewey 1925/1981, 135)

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