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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... ongoing accomplishments that incor- porate the acts and selves of others . These encounters between a self and the other are in fact conducted , I argue further , drawing from the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and Kenneth Burke , by deploying ...
... ongoing accomplishments that incor- porate the acts and selves of others . These encounters between a self and the other are in fact conducted , I argue further , drawing from the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and Kenneth Burke , by deploying ...
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... ongoing series and assembling their meanings . Peirce has argued that humans “ have no power of Introspection but all knowledge of the internal world is derived by hypothetical reasoning from our knowledge of external facts " ( [ 1868 ] ...
... ongoing series and assembling their meanings . Peirce has argued that humans “ have no power of Introspection but all knowledge of the internal world is derived by hypothetical reasoning from our knowledge of external facts " ( [ 1868 ] ...
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... ongoing social process . In the game stage individuals seek to anticipate the acts of the others , stay alert and observant of the attitudes these acts encode and display , respond to their own responses , and organize them all into an ...
... ongoing social process . In the game stage individuals seek to anticipate the acts of the others , stay alert and observant of the attitudes these acts encode and display , respond to their own responses , and organize them all into an ...
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... ongoing relationship or transaction in which an act is occurring or forthcoming and uses such recognition perspic- uously . In an ongoing relationship there is , for example , a moment when one had just declared his undying love for ...
... ongoing relationship or transaction in which an act is occurring or forthcoming and uses such recognition perspic- uously . In an ongoing relationship there is , for example , a moment when one had just declared his undying love for ...
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... ongoing self . The self , it turns out , is not elusive nor is it mysterious , coterminus with mind , soul , or consciousness , and not a residual category ; rather , the self is manifest in the acts , the individuated product of a mind ...
... ongoing self . The self , it turns out , is not elusive nor is it mysterious , coterminus with mind , soul , or consciousness , and not a residual category ; rather , the self is manifest in the acts , the individuated product of a mind ...
Contents
Identificatory Processes | 81 |
The Self in Action | 183 |
Epilogue | 275 |
References | 279 |
Index | 291 |
About the Author | 299 |
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