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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... created by the act . The act creates the self and the self cre- ates the act . The self is present in the act and it is present later as a memory that is inextricably intertwined with the act that produced it . In Mead's words : The ...
... created by the act . The act creates the self and the self cre- ates the act . The self is present in the act and it is present later as a memory that is inextricably intertwined with the act that produced it . In Mead's words : The ...
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... created and selfishness is diminished . Each party must control his or her self- ishness , tailor his or her attitudes , manage his or her emotions , control his or her ambitions and aspirations in order to constitute a dialogue . The ...
... created and selfishness is diminished . Each party must control his or her self- ishness , tailor his or her attitudes , manage his or her emotions , control his or her ambitions and aspirations in order to constitute a dialogue . The ...
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... creating a relationship of domination over the other or one of intimacy . They further note the historical changes in the use of these pronouns and their relation- ship to the types of society in which they flourished . “ The non ...
... creating a relationship of domination over the other or one of intimacy . They further note the historical changes in the use of these pronouns and their relation- ship to the types of society in which they flourished . “ The non ...
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Contents
Identificatory Processes | 81 |
The Self in Action | 183 |
Epilogue | 275 |
References | 279 |
Index | 291 |
About the Author | 299 |
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