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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... vidual selects various elements that are 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 ...
... vidual selects various elements that are 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 ...
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... 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 leash , at the ...
... 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 leash , at the ...
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... vidual " contains " within his or her self and the other that is " contained " in the selves of those whose actions impinge on the acts of the initial self . In the first case the individual's capacity to " make history , " that is , to ...
... vidual " contains " within his or her self and the other that is " contained " in the selves of those whose actions impinge on the acts of the initial self . In the first case the individual's capacity to " make history , " that is , to ...
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... vidual may experience surprise or disappointment and change the knowl- edge of the other that one began with and thus alter the course of the inter- action . Nevertheless there is no gainsaying the claim that one of the irrefutable ...
... vidual may experience surprise or disappointment and change the knowl- edge of the other that one began with and thus alter the course of the inter- action . Nevertheless there is no gainsaying the claim that one of the irrefutable ...
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... vidual derives from the exercise of rhetorical prowess in successfully inte- grating with other people , or for that matter in successfully disintegrating from them , too , when the occasion demands it . Men and women may be “ rational ...
... vidual derives from the exercise of rhetorical prowess in successfully inte- grating with other people , or for that matter in successfully disintegrating from them , too , when the occasion demands it . Men and women may be “ rational ...
Contents
Identificatory Processes | 81 |
The Self in Action | 183 |
Epilogue | 275 |
References | 279 |
Index | 291 |
About the Author | 299 |
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