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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... activities of the self in various social encounters . In the first of these , a number of conversational interactions are analyzed to display the nature of the rhetorical processes involved in the constitution and presentation of self ...
... activities of the self in various social encounters . In the first of these , a number of conversational interactions are analyzed to display the nature of the rhetorical processes involved in the constitution and presentation of self ...
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... activities and the specific rules and regu- lations that govern the conduct in question will also play a crucial role in the execution of the relevant acts . In other words the behaviors would be conscious and situated activities . For ...
... activities and the specific rules and regu- lations that govern the conduct in question will also play a crucial role in the execution of the relevant acts . In other words the behaviors would be conscious and situated activities . For ...
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... activities that Foucault is describing cannot be undertaken without considering the self as an object . It would be “ psycholinguistically ” impossible to test , examine , and monitor one's self without converting it into an object ...
... activities that Foucault is describing cannot be undertaken without considering the self as an object . It would be “ psycholinguistically ” impossible to test , examine , and monitor one's self without converting it into an object ...
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... activities of individuals that are constrained by circumstances and these constraints are of two basic kinds : one that the indi- vidual " contains " within his or her self and the other that is " contained " in the selves of those ...
... activities of individuals that are constrained by circumstances and these constraints are of two basic kinds : one that the indi- vidual " contains " within his or her self and the other that is " contained " in the selves of those ...
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... activities . Without allowing oneself to go to the extremes of James Thurber's Walter Mitty , it is possible for actors to imagine themselves in alternative careers to the ones in which they are currently involved . In all these cases ...
... activities . Without allowing oneself to go to the extremes of James Thurber's Walter Mitty , it is possible for actors to imagine themselves in alternative careers to the ones in which they are currently involved . In all these cases ...
Contents
Identificatory Processes | 81 |
The Self in Action | 183 |
Epilogue | 275 |
References | 279 |
Index | 291 |
About the Author | 299 |
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