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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... logic of signs . Fur- ther , insofar as identity is achieved through the use of language , a poetic of identity becomes impossible to avoid . To use signs to construct identity is in fact a poetic enterprise , and I delineate a few ...
... logic of signs . Fur- ther , insofar as identity is achieved through the use of language , a poetic of identity becomes impossible to avoid . To use signs to construct identity is in fact a poetic enterprise , and I delineate a few ...
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... logical adaptations . Rather , they are symbolic constructions and reconstruc- tions designed for cultural expressivity and the construction of social struc- tures . Every act that an individual produces is produced at the far end of ...
... logical adaptations . Rather , they are symbolic constructions and reconstruc- tions designed for cultural expressivity and the construction of social struc- tures . Every act that an individual produces is produced at the far end of ...
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... logical problem of infinite regress . However , this problem is only an apparent one . The constitution of the self , the choice among various available discourses , is not done by an earlier or primordial self as 30 Chapter 1.
... logical problem of infinite regress . However , this problem is only an apparent one . The constitution of the self , the choice among various available discourses , is not done by an earlier or primordial self as 30 Chapter 1.
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... logical interpretant " as the end of one series of inter- pretive procedures , an interpretant that can become a " habit of response " as George Gentry ( 1952 ) puts it in an analysis of Peirce's works . Rosenthal pro- vides a more ...
... logical interpretant " as the end of one series of inter- pretive procedures , an interpretant that can become a " habit of response " as George Gentry ( 1952 ) puts it in an analysis of Peirce's works . Rosenthal pro- vides a more ...
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... logic of concepts " as further developed by Mead , she argues that we find an answer to the problem of an infinite continuum of interpretations . For Rosenthal , such a logic of con- cepts leads to the emergence of the " ultimate logical ...
... logic of concepts " as further developed by Mead , she argues that we find an answer to the problem of an infinite continuum of interpretations . For Rosenthal , such a logic of con- cepts leads to the emergence of the " ultimate logical ...
Contents
Identificatory Processes | 81 |
The Self in Action | 183 |
Epilogue | 275 |
References | 279 |
Index | 291 |
About the Author | 299 |
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