The Presence of SelfDrawing on ideas from Charles Sanders Peirce, George Herbert Mead, Kenneth Burke, and Mikhail Bakhtin, this work focuses on the centrality of the social act in describing and understanding the beingness of the human individual, situating such acts in dialogic and rhetorical processes. Such processes enable actors to give presence to their selves and, it is claimed, put them into play by using both a logic and a poetic of identity. These arguments are supported by an analysis of everyday conversations, certain inter-personal encounters, and acts of reading and watching sporting engagements. |
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... achieved through the use of language , a poetic of identity becomes impossible to avoid . To use signs to construct identity is in fact a poetic enterprise , and I delineate a few strategic examples of such a poetics of identity . The ...
... achieved through the use of language , a poetic of identity becomes impossible to avoid . To use signs to construct identity is in fact a poetic enterprise , and I delineate a few strategic examples of such a poetics of identity . The ...
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... achieved only by acting in the external world and reflecting on such acting . The second incapacity was described as follows : " We have no power of Intu- ition , but every cognition is determined logically by previous cognitions ...
... achieved only by acting in the external world and reflecting on such acting . The second incapacity was described as follows : " We have no power of Intu- ition , but every cognition is determined logically by previous cognitions ...
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... achieved in culturally provided vocabularies , it too exists . This is the self . Once a self is formulated this way , it will certainly influence any action that issues forth . The self , however , is never complete , never safe and ...
... achieved in culturally provided vocabularies , it too exists . This is the self . Once a self is formulated this way , it will certainly influence any action that issues forth . The self , however , is never complete , never safe and ...
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... achieve something that cannot be done by the mere adaptivity of the two . If , however , one is purchasing two items in a store and each costs a dollar , the total amount that must be surrendered to the storekeeper is one dollar plus ...
... achieve something that cannot be done by the mere adaptivity of the two . If , however , one is purchasing two items in a store and each costs a dollar , the total amount that must be surrendered to the storekeeper is one dollar plus ...
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... achieving dominance and having a commensurate effect on conduct . The second case represents a state in which “ I ” is dominant and the acts of the individual will be more creative , spontaneous , less sensitive to the influence I I ME ...
... achieving dominance and having a commensurate effect on conduct . The second case represents a state in which “ I ” is dominant and the acts of the individual will be more creative , spontaneous , less sensitive to the influence I I ME ...
Contents
Identificatory Processes | 81 |
The Self in Action | 183 |
Epilogue | 275 |
References | 279 |
Index | 291 |
About the Author | 299 |
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