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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... individual is able to incorporate his or her knowledge of the world , his or her values and verities , into the act and con- vert it into a meaningful act . In these " phases of the act " the individual mar- shals , minimally or ...
... individual is able to incorporate his or her knowledge of the world , his or her values and verities , into the act and con- vert it into a meaningful act . In these " phases of the act " the individual mar- shals , minimally or ...
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... individual in question . These stocks of knowledge , to the extent that they reach the individual and become acces- sible to him or her through various intermediaries , will bear their influences and angulations . Insofar as the ...
... individual in question . These stocks of knowledge , to the extent that they reach the individual and become acces- sible to him or her through various intermediaries , will bear their influences and angulations . Insofar as the ...
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... individual as an existent in the phe- nomenal world of multiple existents and the relationship between such exis ... individuals are inescapably discursive creatures . To begin with , as minded organisms they engage in discursive ...
... individual as an existent in the phe- nomenal world of multiple existents and the relationship between such exis ... individuals are inescapably discursive creatures . To begin with , as minded organisms they engage in discursive ...
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... individual prosecutes in what may be termed his or her self - otherness . The acts that humans prosecute have this quality to them : they occur as discrete events , often with vague and uncertain bound- aries , but are events that are ...
... individual prosecutes in what may be termed his or her self - otherness . The acts that humans prosecute have this quality to them : they occur as discrete events , often with vague and uncertain bound- aries , but are events that are ...
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... individual and others that the external world becomes available for cognition . The third “ incapacity ” reads as ... individual himself or herself . It is then not possible to talk of a human or think of him or her and claim that he or ...
... individual and others that the external world becomes available for cognition . The third “ incapacity ” reads as ... individual himself or herself . It is then not possible to talk of a human or think of him or her and claim that he or ...
Contents
Identificatory Processes | 81 |
The Self in Action | 183 |
Epilogue | 275 |
References | 279 |
Index | 291 |
About the Author | 299 |
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