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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... discourse , a suf- ficiently different description of the individual can emerge and these descrip- tions are results of a choice . Insofar as we cannot say that these choices were made , not by the " discourses , " but by sentient ...
... discourse , a suf- ficiently different description of the individual can emerge and these descrip- tions are results of a choice . Insofar as we cannot say that these choices were made , not by the " discourses , " but by sentient ...
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... discourse and at other times he or she may choose the discourse to which he or she wants to give allegiance . To dub all these complex and variable factors as intersecting " systems of con- ventions , " is a sophistry that does not ...
... discourse and at other times he or she may choose the discourse to which he or she wants to give allegiance . To dub all these complex and variable factors as intersecting " systems of con- ventions , " is a sophistry that does not ...
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... discourse " wherever the word " module " appears in this passage and also ask : Who is this I that constitutes a response to the discourses of various regimes ? In the actual performance of the act the individual believes that he or she ...
... discourse " wherever the word " module " appears in this passage and also ask : Who is this I that constitutes a response to the discourses of various regimes ? In the actual performance of the act the individual believes that he or she ...
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... discourses , regimes of power and authority , systems of knowledge , and thereby giving presence to his self as a work of art . It turns out that it is the self of a world- renowned philosopher , and perhaps a world - weary one , an ...
... discourses , regimes of power and authority , systems of knowledge , and thereby giving presence to his self as a work of art . It turns out that it is the self of a world- renowned philosopher , and perhaps a world - weary one , an ...
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... discourse , plays that can be undertaken by the speaker as well as by the lis- tener . To the extent that they can , by mutual agreement , arrive at a working definition of what was going on , and limit the " free play " to manageable ...
... discourse , plays that can be undertaken by the speaker as well as by the lis- tener . To the extent that they can , by mutual agreement , arrive at a working definition of what was going on , and limit the " free play " to manageable ...
Contents
Identificatory Processes | 81 |
The Self in Action | 183 |
Epilogue | 275 |
References | 279 |
Index | 291 |
About the Author | 299 |
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