John Dewey sur la realtion entre « creativité » et « alterité » dans le langage

Résumé

Eugenio Coseriu, borrowing some ideas and concepts from some of his notorious
forerunners (Aristotle, Vico, Humboldt, Pagliaro, Gentile, etc.), referred to the dialectic relation
between “creativity” and “alterity”, seen as universals of language. The aim of my paper is to prove that John Dewey, the great American pragmatist philosopher, accurately identified the two concepts (even if he did not always name them in the same way) and considered them vital to “social” psychology. At the same time, I aim at pointing out the “prototypical” or central role which Dewey attributes to language among the other human activities.