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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... response . While most of our acts stretch into the world that does not yet exist , they inevitably include immediate steps which lie within the existent world , and the synchronizing , with recorded elements in some uniform process of ...
... response . While most of our acts stretch into the world that does not yet exist , they inevitably include immediate steps which lie within the existent world , and the synchronizing , with recorded elements in some uniform process of ...
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... response directs the approach ” ( 1938 : 24 ) . The " directionality " of the steps to the act leads Mead to claim ... responses , takes the role of the objects in the situation , as of the others in it , and makes a selection of the ...
... response directs the approach ” ( 1938 : 24 ) . The " directionality " of the steps to the act leads Mead to claim ... responses , takes the role of the objects in the situation , as of the others in it , and makes a selection of the ...
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... responses , and incorporated into the acts by the individual . The individual , subject though he or she may have been in the socialization processes to these same discursive formations , nev- ertheless has enough independence from them ...
... responses , and incorporated into the acts by the individual . The individual , subject though he or she may have been in the socialization processes to these same discursive formations , nev- ertheless has enough independence from them ...
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... responses of the actor as well as in those of others and becomes meaningful to both . The responses of the other or others defines the act for the initiator and gives the act a new character . It is no longer a private event but a ...
... responses of the actor as well as in those of others and becomes meaningful to both . The responses of the other or others defines the act for the initiator and gives the act a new character . It is no longer a private event but a ...
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... response , and awaits a response . In the course of the assembling process , however spontaneous and instantaneous and habitual it ... responses from others while prosecuting an act . The result- ant self then is both singular and social ...
... response , and awaits a response . In the course of the assembling process , however spontaneous and instantaneous and habitual it ... responses from others while prosecuting an act . The result- ant self then is both singular and social ...
Contents
Identificatory Processes | 81 |
The Self in Action | 183 |
Epilogue | 275 |
References | 279 |
Index | 291 |
About the Author | 299 |
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