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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... given 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 ...
... given 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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... given to featuring one theme rather than another . For all that , however , the languages are received and interpreted by an active and functioning intelli- gence , subject to either habitual or delayed responses , and incorporated into ...
... given to featuring one theme rather than another . For all that , however , the languages are received and interpreted by an active and functioning intelli- gence , subject to either habitual or delayed responses , and incorporated into ...
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... given , but a sys- tematic variable . 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 ...
... given , but a sys- tematic variable . 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 ...
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... given directly and simply . If we must use the metaphor of the leash , the answer is that indeed the leash is so long and flexible that for all practical human purposes it doesn't make a difference whether genes hold culture in their ...
... given directly and simply . If we must use the metaphor of the leash , the answer is that indeed the leash is so long and flexible that for all practical human purposes it doesn't make a difference whether genes hold culture in their ...
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... given cultures . For all anyone knows , the genes may play a part in all this , but it is a self , based on the knowledge of a past and an anticipa- tion of the future , that will parsimoniously describe the variable acts that are ...
... given cultures . For all anyone knows , the genes may play a part in all this , but it is a self , based on the knowledge of a past and an anticipa- tion of the future , that will parsimoniously describe the variable acts that are ...
Contents
Identificatory Processes | 81 |
The Self in Action | 183 |
Epilogue | 275 |
References | 279 |
Index | 291 |
About the Author | 299 |
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