‘I am conscious of myself and become myself only through revealing myself for another, through another and with the help of another. The most important acts constituting self-consciousness are determined by a relationship toward another consciousness [toward a thou]…The very being of man internal and external is the deepest communion. To be means to communicate…To be means to be for another, and through the other for oneself. A person has no internal soveriegn territory, he is wholly and always on the boundary: looking inside himself he looks into the eyes of another or with the eyes of another…I cannot manage without another, I cannot become myself without another.’

Text reproduced from: Thinking space By Mike Crang, N. J. Thrift, 2000:pp73/74

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