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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... in fact conducted , I argue further , drawing from the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and Kenneth Burke , by deploying language in varying rhetorical modes and reaping the fruits thereof . With these means a self is given a xi Preface.
... in fact conducted , I argue further , drawing from the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and Kenneth Burke , by deploying language in varying rhetorical modes and reaping the fruits thereof . With these means a self is given a xi Preface.
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... argue that selves are not only experienced , felt , and presented but are also put into play by a cognitive and sentient and reflex- ive actor with varying intentions and are also watched as the play is con- ducted and consummated . It ...
... argue that selves are not only experienced , felt , and presented but are also put into play by a cognitive and sentient and reflex- ive actor with varying intentions and are also watched as the play is con- ducted and consummated . It ...
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... " unifies the study of " living forms , " argues Langer , and becomes the root of psychology as well . The " act concept ” may unify living form in one encompassing category but within it Langer accepts 3 Chapter 1: Dialogic Acts.
... " unifies the study of " living forms , " argues Langer , and becomes the root of psychology as well . The " act concept ” may unify living form in one encompassing category but within it Langer accepts 3 Chapter 1: Dialogic Acts.
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... argues , is constituted through acts in what he terms “ general stages . ” For the early stages of the emergence of the self , Mead argues that “ play ” and “ game ” could be used as convenient descriptions . In the play stage children ...
... argues , is constituted through acts in what he terms “ general stages . ” For the early stages of the emergence of the self , Mead argues that “ play ” and “ game ” could be used as convenient descriptions . In the play stage children ...
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... argues that we find an answer to the problem of an infinite continuum of interpretations . For Rosenthal , such a logic of con- cepts leads to the emergence of the " ultimate logical interpretant . ” She notes , As an intrinsic " part ...
... argues that we find an answer to the problem of an infinite continuum of interpretations . For Rosenthal , such a logic of con- cepts leads to the emergence of the " ultimate logical interpretant . ” She notes , As an intrinsic " part ...
Contents
Identificatory Processes | 81 |
The Self in Action | 183 |
Epilogue | 275 |
References | 279 |
Index | 291 |
About the Author | 299 |
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