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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... examples of such a poetics of identity . The last two chapters treat the activities of the self in various social encounters . In the first of these , a number of conversational interactions are analyzed to display the nature of the ...
... examples of such a poetics of identity . The last two chapters treat the activities of the self in various social encounters . In the first of these , a number of conversational interactions are analyzed to display the nature of the ...
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... examples here too . This selecting of " behaviors " by these birds may occur one way or another but among human beings such selection occurs as an act that is circumscribed by purely social factors . To begin with it is limited by the ...
... examples here too . This selecting of " behaviors " by these birds may occur one way or another but among human beings such selection occurs as an act that is circumscribed by purely social factors . To begin with it is limited by the ...
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... example , it is the case that humans defend their “ nests ” -home , land , and country — but they are defended as culturally and socially defined phenomena . Furthermore , there will be numerous occasions when they are not defended ...
... example , it is the case that humans defend their “ nests ” -home , land , and country — but they are defended as culturally and socially defined phenomena . Furthermore , there will be numerous occasions when they are not defended ...
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... example , they are not just bodies , or for that matter two minds ; rather they become a social dyad with emer- gent properties . They also have a different mass and can collectively achieve something that cannot be done by the mere ...
... example , they are not just bodies , or for that matter two minds ; rather they become a social dyad with emer- gent properties . They also have a different mass and can collectively achieve something that cannot be done by the mere ...
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... example , a man's territory is invaded by another and his response to this will be made not on the dictates of the gene , but by his knowledge of his capacities as a fighter , his understanding of his physical strength , his awareness ...
... example , a man's territory is invaded by another and his response to this will be made not on the dictates of the gene , but by his knowledge of his capacities as a fighter , his understanding of his physical strength , his awareness ...
Contents
Identificatory Processes | 81 |
The Self in Action | 183 |
Epilogue | 275 |
References | 279 |
Index | 291 |
About the Author | 299 |
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