The Presence of Self

R. S. Perinbanayagam

doi:10.5771/9781461645269

Summary

Drawing 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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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2000
Copyright Year: 2000
ISBN-Print: 978-0-8476-9384-9
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4616-4526-9
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 299
Product Type: Monograph

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Preface No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
1. Chapter 1: Dialogic Acts No access
2. Chapter 2: Rhetoric and the Self No access
1. Chapter 3: Identity: The Continuity and Differentiation of Self No access
2. Chapter 4: The Poetics of Identity No access
1. Chapter 5: Speaking of the Self No access
2. Chapter 6: The Plays of the Self No access
Epilogue No access Pages 275 - 278
References No access Pages 279 - 290
Index No access Pages 291 - 298
About the Author No access Pages 299 - 299