Best Self
George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) was an American philosopher and social theorist associated with pragmatism and the University of Chicago. He examined how communication and social interaction shape the mind, the self, and shared meanings, distinguishing between the spontaneous "I" and the socially fo...
One, No One and One Hundred Thousand is a 1926 Italian novel by Luigi Pirandello, published as Uno, nessuno e centomila. Its protagonist, Vitangelo Moscarda, becomes unsettled when a minor observation about his appearance makes him realize that other people hold versions of him that differ from his...
Johann Gottlieb Fichte was a prominent German philosopher of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He developed idealism emphasizing the fundamental role of the self in shaping reality. His Wissenschaftslehre, particularly its concept of the “self-positing I,” profoundly influenced subsequent phil...
