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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... answered by self and other as well . Such acts are produced by deliberative and purposeful agents who orient their acts to others , as well as to the self as an other , and to inanimate objects . Acts are the means by which an ...
... answered by self and other as well . Such acts are produced by deliberative and purposeful agents who orient their acts to others , as well as to the self as an other , and to inanimate objects . Acts are the means by which an ...
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... answers this question with statements from Edward Wilson , who asked , Can the cultural evolution of higher ethical values gain a direction and momen- tum of its own and completely replace genetic evolution ? I think not . The genes ...
... answers this question with statements from Edward Wilson , who asked , Can the cultural evolution of higher ethical values gain a direction and momen- tum of its own and completely replace genetic evolution ? I think not . The genes ...
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... answering certain questions to sacrifice precision for perspective and when answering certain other questions it is necessary to sacrifice perspective and gain precision . When seeking to explain behavior , conduct , and action it is ...
... answering certain questions to sacrifice precision for perspective and when answering certain other questions it is necessary to sacrifice perspective and gain precision . When seeking to explain behavior , conduct , and action it is ...
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... answer to his questions , rhetorical though they may be , can be given directly and simply . If we must use the metaphor of the leash , the answer is that indeed the leash is so long and flexible that for all practical human purposes it ...
... answer to his questions , rhetorical though they may be , can be given directly and simply . If we must use the metaphor of the leash , the answer is that indeed the leash is so long and flexible that for all practical human purposes it ...
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... answer to the question : How to explain the complex dialogical process by which an act is produced by an individual ? The simplest way of handling the problem would be in terms of memory . I talk to myself , and I remember what I said ...
... answer to the question : How to explain the complex dialogical process by which an act is produced by an individual ? The simplest way of handling the problem would be in terms of memory . I talk to myself , and I remember what I said ...
Contents
Identificatory Processes | 81 |
The Self in Action | 183 |
Epilogue | 275 |
References | 279 |
Index | 291 |
About the Author | 299 |
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