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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... constituted self . Mead goes on to say , “ We approach the distant stimulus with the manipulatory processes already excited . We are ready to grasp the hammer before we reach it , and the attitude of manipulatory response directs the ...
... constituted self . Mead goes on to say , “ We approach the distant stimulus with the manipulatory processes already excited . We are ready to grasp the hammer before we reach it , and the attitude of manipulatory response directs the ...
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... constituted by lan- guage , and the " languages " in which the knowledge , the " discursive forma- tions , " are manifested to the individual will thus be partial , incomplete , and given to featuring one theme rather than another . For ...
... constituted by lan- guage , and the " languages " in which the knowledge , the " discursive forma- tions , " are manifested to the individual will thus be partial , incomplete , and given to featuring one theme rather than another . For ...
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... constituting and managing dis- cursive acts . Human individuals are inescapably discursive creatures . To begin with , as minded organisms they engage in discursive activity in their inner forums ( Mead , 1964 : 243 ) . Further , as ...
... constituting and managing dis- cursive acts . Human individuals are inescapably discursive creatures . To begin with , as minded organisms they engage in discursive activity in their inner forums ( Mead , 1964 : 243 ) . Further , as ...
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... constituted presences and not empty exercises in pure phenomenology . The present of the act is richly textured and , to the extent that the actor is neither amnesiac nor autistic , the act will incorporate a constructed past and a ...
... constituted presences and not empty exercises in pure phenomenology . The present of the act is richly textured and , to the extent that the actor is neither amnesiac nor autistic , the act will incorporate a constructed past and a ...
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... constituted minds of humans like Wilson and Durham are able to conceive and present their thesis about evo- lution and behavior , theories that are distinct from the theories of others , in a style and a language that is different from ...
... constituted minds of humans like Wilson and Durham are able to conceive and present their thesis about evo- lution and behavior , theories that are distinct from the theories of others , in a style and a language that is different from ...
Contents
Identificatory Processes | 81 |
The Self in Action | 183 |
Epilogue | 275 |
References | 279 |
Index | 291 |
About the Author | 299 |
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