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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... reflective process in which knowing the perceptual object becomes a definite part of conduct , and the other is found in the identification of the organism with the social self . ( 1938 : 16–17 ) In prosecuting an act then , once it ...
... reflective process in which knowing the perceptual object becomes a definite part of conduct , and the other is found in the identification of the organism with the social self . ( 1938 : 16–17 ) In prosecuting an act then , once it ...
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... reflective process and a social self become influential in the action that an organism is intending to take toward an object . " Thus , " Mead notes , “ the object of immediate perception has been placed in consciousness , as the ...
... reflective process and a social self become influential in the action that an organism is intending to take toward an object . " Thus , " Mead notes , “ the object of immediate perception has been placed in consciousness , as the ...
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... reflective indi- vidual takes this up into a flow of experience within which stands a fixed past and a more or less uncertain future " ( 1934 : 351 ) . Whatever the biological forces may dictate , and however strong the pull on Wilson's ...
... reflective indi- vidual takes this up into a flow of experience within which stands a fixed past and a more or less uncertain future " ( 1934 : 351 ) . Whatever the biological forces may dictate , and however strong the pull on Wilson's ...
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... reflective individual " who is able to remember a past and anticipate a future . This is the presence of self in an act and in a situation , in the moments in which conduct is selected and articulated . For example , a man's territory ...
... reflective individual " who is able to remember a past and anticipate a future . This is the presence of self in an act and in a situation , in the moments in which conduct is selected and articulated . For example , a man's territory ...
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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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