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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... occurring as they do in terms of the other , and of the environment as an other too , are dialectical adjustments to both . The product of these discursive and adjustive processes is the self . Such a self is present in all acts ...
... occurring as they do in terms of the other , and of the environment as an other too , are dialectical adjustments to both . The product of these discursive and adjustive processes is the self . Such a self is present in all acts ...
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... occur as discrete events , often with vague and uncertain bound- aries , but are events that are nevertheless ... occurring in terms of " Expectation , " " Attention , " and " Memory " ( 1984 : 19 ) . One attends to the moment ...
... occur as discrete events , often with vague and uncertain bound- aries , but are events that are nevertheless ... occurring in terms of " Expectation , " " Attention , " and " Memory " ( 1984 : 19 ) . One attends to the moment ...
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... 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 knowledge that the actor possesses of the con- sequences of his or her ...
... 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 knowledge that the actor possesses of the con- sequences of his or her ...
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... occur , if ever ? ( 3 ) Is the leash ever so long as to be inef- fective , allowing the “ domesticated pet " to run free , in effect ? When does this happen ? ( Durham 1991 : 35 ) After reviewing a great deal of literature Durham ...
... occur , if ever ? ( 3 ) Is the leash ever so long as to be inef- fective , allowing the “ domesticated pet " to run free , in effect ? When does this happen ? ( Durham 1991 : 35 ) After reviewing a great deal of literature Durham ...
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... occurred , it was possible for humans to develop conscious knowledge and capacity for a conception of self which will make all the difference . As Mead argued , “ The biologic individual lives in an undifferentiated now ; the social ...
... occurred , it was possible for humans to develop conscious knowledge and capacity for a conception of self which will make all the difference . As Mead argued , “ The biologic individual lives in an undifferentiated now ; the social ...
Contents
Identificatory Processes | 81 |
The Self in Action | 183 |
Epilogue | 275 |
References | 279 |
Index | 291 |
About the Author | 299 |
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