...Taylor in the course of his wonderful study of 'the modern identity': one cannot be a self on one's own. I am a self only in relation to certain interlocutors:...are now crucial to my continuing grasp of languages and self-understanding - and, of course, these classes may overlap. A self exists only within what...

...there is no shared background. Taylor (1989) gives an account of the significance of this emptiness. I am a self only in relation to certain interlocutors: in one way in relation to those conversational partners who were essential to my achieving selfdefinition; in another in relation to...

...even in an academy where illusions of autonomy and individualism are often assiduously cultivated. "I am a self only in relation to certain interlocutors:...continuing grasp of languages of self-understanding ... A self exists only within what I call 'webs of interlocution.'"6 So this book, like any other,...

...or with whom I have an affinity . . . This is the sense in which one cannot be a self on one's own. I am a self only in relation to certain interlocutors:...self-understanding - and, of course, these classes may overlap.29 Without doubt, then, Taylor's theory of identity formation merits the description 'intersubjectivist'....

...in relation to certain interlocutor: in one way in relation to those conversation partners who are essential to my achieving self-definition; in another...classes may overlap. A self exists only within what 1 call 'webs of interlocution' (Taylor, 1989, p. 36). The third groups of arguments, are those which...

...narrative view. It describes, Taylor writes "the sense in which one cannot be a self on one's own ... I am a self only in relation to certain interlocutors:...now crucial to my continuing grasp of languages of self understanding — and, of course, these classes may overlap. A self exists only within what I...

...uses the concept of a "web of interlocution" to describe this relationship between self and language. "I am a self only in relation to certain interlocutors:...one way in relation to those conversation partners which are essential to my achieving self-definition; in another in relation to those who are now crucial...

...exactly to "those conversation partners who were essential to my achieving self-definition [and] ... those who are now crucial to my continuing grasp of languages of self-understanding." (Taylor 1989: 36) My comment would be the following: one shouldn't stare oneself blind at the continuity...

...dialysis. 141 The philosopher Charles Taylor (1989) says the following in his book Sources of Self: I am a self only In relation to certain interlocutors:...now crucial to my continuing grasp of languages of self-understanding—and, of course, these classes may overlap. A self exists only within what I call...

...both a morally oriented and a socially located agent. He writes, "one cannot be a self on one's own. I am a self only in relation to certain interlocutors:...continuing grasp of languages of self-understanding ... It is this original situation which gives its sense to our concept of "identity", offering an answer...