The Social Self in Zen and American PragmatismThe thesis of this work is that in both modern Japanese philosophy and American pragmatism there has been a paradigm shift from a monological concept of self as an isolated "I" to a dialogical concept of the social self as an "I Thou relation," including a communication model of self as an individual society interaction. It is also shown that for both traditions all aesthetic, moral, and religious values are a function of the social self arising