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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... 135 III The Self in Action 5 Speaking of the Self 185 6 The Plays of the Self 221 Epilogue 275 References Index About the Author 279 291 299 Preface One of the most frequently debated issues in contemporary ix Table of Contents.
... 135 III The Self in Action 5 Speaking of the Self 185 6 The Plays of the Self 221 Epilogue 275 References Index About the Author 279 291 299 Preface One of the most frequently debated issues in contemporary ix Table of Contents.
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... Actions , then , occurring as they do in terms of the other , and of the environment as an other too , are dialectical adjustments to both . The product of these discursive and adjustive processes is the self . Such a self is present in ...
... Actions , then , occurring as they do in terms of the other , and of the environment as an other too , are dialectical adjustments to both . The product of these discursive and adjustive processes is the self . Such a self is present in ...
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... actions are the basic units with which living phenomena manifest their presence in nature . Suzanne Langer has reviewed the relevant literature and has argued for the centrality of the " act concept " in understanding the behav- ior of ...
... actions are the basic units with which living phenomena manifest their presence in nature . Suzanne Langer has reviewed the relevant literature and has argued for the centrality of the " act concept " in understanding the behav- ior of ...
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... action with reference to it " ( 1938 : 12 ) . Once again Mead stresses the relation between the actor and the object . The object is perceived and defined by a series of moves , its character and qualities apprehended and the ...
... action with reference to it " ( 1938 : 12 ) . Once again Mead stresses the relation between the actor and the object . The object is perceived and defined by a series of moves , its character and qualities apprehended and the ...
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... action that an organism is intending to take toward an object . " Thus , " Mead notes , “ the object of immediate perception has been placed in consciousness , as the experience of this social self , while the real object is placed ...
... action that an organism is intending to take toward an object . " Thus , " Mead notes , “ the object of immediate perception has been placed in consciousness , as the experience of this social self , while the real object is placed ...
Contents
Identificatory Processes | 81 |
The Self in Action | 183 |
Epilogue | 275 |
References | 279 |
Index | 291 |
About the Author | 299 |
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