🧠 Does language create the self?
Language doesn’t simply express a pre-existing “true self”—it actively brings the self into being. Descartes' famous phrase "I think, therefore I am" assumes that thought is separate from and represents an already established I. But what if there is no "I" outside of language? In this view, thinking does not stem from a fixed, pre-existing self; rather, the "I" is merely a position within language itself.
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📚 Recommended Readings:
📖 Barker, C. (2016). Issues of subjectivity and identity. In Cultural studies: Theory and practice (5th ed., pp. 259-294). SAGE Publications.
📖 Hall, S. (1992). The question of cultural identity. In S. Hall, D. Held, & T. McGrew (Eds.), Modernity and its futures (pp. 273-316). Polity Press.
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