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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... one's own discursive formation and a discursive self with it . It is this capacity to be socially formed and discursively constituted , and be subject to cultural and historical processes , and at the same time to be a conscious and ...
... one's own discursive formation and a discursive self with it . It is this capacity to be socially formed and discursively constituted , and be subject to cultural and historical processes , and at the same time to be a conscious and ...
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... one's con- sciousness - thematized and made into a more or less coherent definition of the self . The final incapacity that Peirce describes is : “ We have no concep- tion of the absolutely incognizable ” ( [ 1868 ] 1958 : 41 ) and this ...
... one's con- sciousness - thematized and made into a more or less coherent definition of the self . The final incapacity that Peirce describes is : “ We have no concep- tion of the absolutely incognizable ” ( [ 1868 ] 1958 : 41 ) and this ...
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... one's nest , appropriate paternal and maternal behavior , and responses to adultery are all made up of acts in which a self is present . What- ever he or she decides to do will certainly not be determined by a biological imperative but ...
... one's nest , appropriate paternal and maternal behavior , and responses to adultery are all made up of acts in which a self is present . What- ever he or she decides to do will certainly not be determined by a biological imperative but ...
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... one's own organism to the others in the interactions that are going on , insofar as it is imported into the conduct of the individual with the conversation of the " I " and the " me , " constitutes the self . ( 1934 : 179 ) It is this ...
... one's own organism to the others in the interactions that are going on , insofar as it is imported into the conduct of the individual with the conversation of the " I " and the " me , " constitutes the self . ( 1934 : 179 ) It is this ...
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... one's place in a struc- ture of power , in a system of divided labor , in a framework of signs , privi- leges , and obligations , all of them socially defined and learned . Once having taken his or her own role , he or she takes the ...
... one's place in a struc- ture of power , in a system of divided labor , in a framework of signs , privi- leges , and obligations , all of them socially defined and learned . Once having taken his or her own role , he or she takes the ...
Contents
Identificatory Processes | 81 |
The Self in Action | 183 |
Epilogue | 275 |
References | 279 |
Index | 291 |
About the Author | 299 |
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