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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... further , con- trast it with certain other theories of the agent and agency and then examine the implications of such a theory to selected areas of sociological interest . I begin with a discussion of the concept of the act , drawing ...
... further , con- trast it with certain other theories of the agent and agency and then examine the implications of such a theory to selected areas of sociological interest . I begin with a discussion of the concept of the act , drawing ...
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... further discussion and elaboration and amendment just as new issues are presented . Those who liked my earlier work may find this , too , of interest . As for the others . . . well , the caravan moves on . Acknowledgments In the ...
... further discussion and elaboration and amendment just as new issues are presented . Those who liked my earlier work may find this , too , of interest . As for the others . . . well , the caravan moves on . Acknowledgments In the ...
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... further advanced by Mead's claim that the real- ity of the object in perception is a “ distant ” one , and it invites us to “ action with reference to it " ( 1938 : 12 ) . Once again Mead stresses the relation between the actor and the ...
... further advanced by Mead's claim that the real- ity of the object in perception is a “ distant ” one , and it invites us to “ action with reference to it " ( 1938 : 12 ) . Once again Mead stresses the relation between the actor and the ...
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... further conse- quences for the actor : it activates a completion in the respective responses of the actor as well as in those of others and becomes meaningful to both . The responses of the other or others defines the act for the ...
... further conse- quences for the actor : it activates a completion in the respective responses of the actor as well as in those of others and becomes meaningful to both . The responses of the other or others defines the act for the ...
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... Further , the act will be determined by the rules and regula- tions that a culture has provided for the behavior in question . To say that these rules and regulations were established by the culture in accordance with biological ...
... Further , the act will be determined by the rules and regula- tions that a culture has provided for the behavior in question . To say that these rules and regulations were established by the culture in accordance with biological ...
Contents
Identificatory Processes | 81 |
The Self in Action | 183 |
Epilogue | 275 |
References | 279 |
Index | 291 |
About the Author | 299 |
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