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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... relevant literature and has argued for the centrality of the " act concept " in understanding the behav- ior of all organisms . To begin with , she notes that " the difficulty of drawing a sharp line between animate and inanimate things ...
... relevant literature and has argued for the centrality of the " act concept " in understanding the behav- ior of all organisms . To begin with , she notes that " the difficulty of drawing a sharp line between animate and inanimate things ...
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... relevant to the situation to prosecute his or her act , define his or her self . This knowledge and its manifestation in self and act impact on the others with whom he or she has to deal , just as their knowledge impacts on the ...
... relevant to the situation to prosecute his or her act , define his or her self . This knowledge and its manifestation in self and act impact on the others with whom he or she has to deal , just as their knowledge impacts on the ...
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... relevance to an explanation of human con- duct is somewhat remote . It is no doubt the case that humans evolved from earlier forms into present forms and natural selection played a role in the constitution of the present formation and ...
... relevance to an explanation of human con- duct is somewhat remote . It is no doubt the case that humans evolved from earlier forms into present forms and natural selection played a role in the constitution of the present formation and ...
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... relevance of these findings to his or her own life and circumstance , there is no guaranteeing that his or her con- duct would be adaptive . In other words , his or her action to be undertaken in a direction adaptive to his or her group ...
... relevance of these findings to his or her own life and circumstance , there is no guaranteeing that his or her con- duct would be adaptive . In other words , his or her action to be undertaken in a direction adaptive to his or her group ...
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... relevant acts . In other words the behaviors would be conscious and situated activities . For example , it is the case that humans defend their “ nests ” -home , land , and country — but they are defended as culturally and socially ...
... relevant acts . In other words the behaviors would be conscious and situated activities . For example , it is the case that humans defend their “ nests ” -home , land , and country — but they are defended as culturally and socially ...
Contents
Identificatory Processes | 81 |
The Self in Action | 183 |
Epilogue | 275 |
References | 279 |
Index | 291 |
About the Author | 299 |
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