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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... put into play by a cognitive and sentient and reflex- ive actor with varying intentions and are also watched as the play is con- ducted and consummated . It is possible , I think , for a symbolic and imagi- native creature to feel the ...
... put into play by a cognitive and sentient and reflex- ive actor with varying intentions and are also watched as the play is con- ducted and consummated . It is possible , I think , for a symbolic and imagi- native creature to feel the ...
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... into a certain whole . ( 1934 : 150–151 ) These moves by the one who is engaged in play— “ offering , ” “ buying ... put this very well ; " In the acts of children at play one can observe the initial stages in the ' genesis of self ...
... into a certain whole . ( 1934 : 150–151 ) These moves by the one who is engaged in play— “ offering , ” “ buying ... put this very well ; " In the acts of children at play one can observe the initial stages in the ' genesis of self ...
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... into account before making an interpretive response he or she would suffer ... put a conjunction “ and ” between the present word and the absent word and ... play of differences , ” their respective significations infinitely deferrable ...
... into account before making an interpretive response he or she would suffer ... put a conjunction “ and ” between the present word and the absent word and ... play of differences , ” their respective significations infinitely deferrable ...
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... put into place by the circumstances of his or her own past . How does this ... play a part , but by the choices made available by the sedimented and habit ... into institutions and his- torical practices shared by a large number of people ...
... put into place by the circumstances of his or her own past . How does this ... play a part , but by the choices made available by the sedimented and habit ... into institutions and his- torical practices shared by a large number of people ...
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Contents
Identificatory Processes | 81 |
The Self in Action | 183 |
Epilogue | 275 |
References | 279 |
Index | 291 |
About the Author | 299 |
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