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The fragility of the bridge can be traced to a fundamental paradox at the heart of the human condition: each of us lives two lives, one private ‘as I’, the other public ‘as we’. Martin Buber summed it up: ‘Experience comes to man “as I” but it is by experience “as we” that he builds the common world in which he lives’ (Britton, 1970: 19).
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© 1988 Terence Moore and Chris Carling
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Moore, T., Carling, C. (1988). The Public and the Private: a difficult balancing act. In: The Limitations of Language. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19446-9_4
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