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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Monceri, Flavia – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2009
In this article, I try to further develop my notion of the "transculturing self." Firstly, I discuss Nietzsche's positions on "self" and "subject," arguing for the idea that "there is no self." Hence, I try to show that "identity" is the outcome of a (co-)construction originating in the circumstance that each individual needs to meet external…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Identification (Psychology), Self Concept, Philosophy
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Monceri, Flavia – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2003
The "Self" is a core notion in Western philosophy, which mainly defined it as an "autarchic individual", dependent on no "Other" whatsoever. Such a prevailing definition fails to recognise that just the "Other" is needed to properly define the "Self". As a result, Western mainstream philosophy still seems to lack useful theoretical tools to…
Descriptors: Philosophy, Cultural Pluralism, Intercultural Communication, Epistemology