C.H. クーリーとG. H. ミードの自己論の構図

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As Durkheim said, Pragmatism was a different style of thought from European rationalist tradition. William James questioned the basic premises of Cartesian subject. His major innovation was to regard not only the “external world” but also the “self” as object. Cooley realized that one's self cannot be understood without reference to his interpretation of how others see him. This view was formulated in his famous conception of the “looking-glass self”. Mead reinterpreted Cooley's theory of self along the lines of the pragmatic functionalism of Dewey and social behaviorism. How one can see himself as others see him? For Cooley, it was possible through “imagination” pepople have one another, for Mead, by “significant symbol”.