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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... cultural and historical processes , and at the same time to be a conscious and deliberate agent with the ability to devise new discursive formations , challenge the rel- evant cultural and historical forces , and reconstitute the self ...
... cultural and historical processes , and at the same time to be a conscious and deliberate agent with the ability to devise new discursive formations , challenge the rel- evant cultural and historical forces , and reconstitute the self ...
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... cultural . It is a fea- ture of the minding process , of the discursive mind , and achieves a presence in the reflexive minding of the individual as well as in his or her interactional minding . To talk then of a self's presence is ...
... cultural . It is a fea- ture of the minding process , of the discursive mind , and achieves a presence in the reflexive minding of the individual as well as in his or her interactional minding . To talk then of a self's presence is ...
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... culture has provided for the behavior in question . To say that these rules and regulations were established by the culture in accordance with biological imperatives will not pass muster ; such establishment was also made by human ...
... culture has provided for the behavior in question . To say that these rules and regulations were established by the culture in accordance with biological imperatives will not pass muster ; such establishment was also made by human ...
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... culture into the evolutionary - behavioral paradigm and con- sider human behavior as a function of both genes and culture , of " co - evolu- tion . " In a comprehensive work , Durham advances the thesis of coevolution of culture and ...
... culture into the evolutionary - behavioral paradigm and con- sider human behavior as a function of both genes and culture , of " co - evolu- tion . " In a comprehensive work , Durham advances the thesis of coevolution of culture and ...
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... culture " as an explana- tory variable , the issue of human action , which is accomplished by an individual actor in a dialogic process with himself or herself as well as with others , is subject to an epistemological evasion . Culture ...
... culture " as an explana- tory variable , the issue of human action , which is accomplished by an individual actor in a dialogic process with himself or herself as well as with others , is subject to an epistemological evasion . Culture ...
Contents
Identificatory Processes | 81 |
The Self in Action | 183 |
Epilogue | 275 |
References | 279 |
Index | 291 |
About the Author | 299 |
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