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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... structures and functions of our " capacity for culture " ... particularly those of the brain and vocal tract are themselves products of organic evolution . How much freedom from the genes can one expect from such a “ derived ...
... structures and functions of our " capacity for culture " ... particularly those of the brain and vocal tract are themselves products of organic evolution . How much freedom from the genes can one expect from such a “ derived ...
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... existence is always shaped by the human's symbolicity . This claim is as true for other gene - based theories of human action as for ones based on " temperament " and " personality structure " and so on that posit Dialogic Acts 17.
... existence is always shaped by the human's symbolicity . This claim is as true for other gene - based theories of human action as for ones based on " temperament " and " personality structure " and so on that posit Dialogic Acts 17.
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R. S. Perinbanayagam. and " personality structure " and so on that posit an invariant continuity over time of a particular disposition to act . Whatever the glands may dictate or tem- perament and personality may demand , at the moment ...
R. S. Perinbanayagam. and " personality structure " and so on that posit an invariant continuity over time of a particular disposition to act . Whatever the glands may dictate or tem- perament and personality may demand , at the moment ...
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... structure , " " history , ” “ econ- omy , " and " politics " and the capacity for agency . In undertaking an act , in organizing its contours and parameters , an individual , then , to begin with , takes his or her own role : He or she ...
... structure , " " history , ” “ econ- omy , " and " politics " and the capacity for agency . In undertaking an act , in organizing its contours and parameters , an individual , then , to begin with , takes his or her own role : He or she ...
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... structure as well as formulating a self . Such moves , however , are part of a series that began earlier , and have roots earlier still , a series which is retained in the mind , and according to some recent researchers , in the very ...
... structure as well as formulating a self . Such moves , however , are part of a series that began earlier , and have roots earlier still , a series which is retained in the mind , and according to some recent researchers , in the very ...
Contents
Identificatory Processes | 81 |
The Self in Action | 183 |
Epilogue | 275 |
References | 279 |
Index | 291 |
About the Author | 299 |
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