The Rich Modern Concept of the Self and the Art of Reading Silently Part 2

In this second part of a two episode instalment, I look at how the development of a specific type of technique - reading silently as opposed to reading aloud - carved out a greater interior space in the human mind to give acreage for a richer concept of the self to develop. How did we get from the ancient Greek who had very little concept of interiority to the arguably narcissistic modern self who is wrapped up in the tangles of their own head? Here I will be borrowing from the work of Charles Taylor and Robert Darnton to explore these ideas.