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Self, Culture, and Language: a reading of Merleau-Ponty

“Our contact with ourselves always takes place through a culture, or at least through a language that we have received from the outside and which guides us in our knowledge of ourselves. So that, finally, the pure self, the mind, without instruments and without history, if it is indeed like a critical instance that we […]

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