What Is the Role of Misrecognition in Self Recognition?

When we speak, the sound of our own voice, Mead says, a sales are ears, just as it assails the ears of others. He notes that this is the case for those who are deaf. For me, the vocal gesture has provided the medium of social organization in human society above all. Because it's so deeply organized as not only our relations to others, but actually our relation to ourselves, such that a self emerges out of it.

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