The Presence of Self

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.

List of contents

Part 1 I: Dialogic Processes
Chapter 2 1 Dialogic Acts
Chapter 3 2 Rhetoric and the Self
Part 4 II: Identificatory Processes
Chapter 5 3 Identity: The Continuity and Differentiation of Self
Chapter 6 4 The Poetics of Identity
Part 7 III: The Self in Action
Chapter 8 5 Speaking of the Self
Chapter 9 6 The Plays of the Self
Chapter 10 Epilogue

About the author

R. S. Perinbanayagam

Product details

• Authors: R. S. Perinbanayagam
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.01.2000
• EAN: 9780847693856
• ISBN: 978-0-8476-9385-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 226 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 426 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Social Theory, PSYCHOLOGY / Personality, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, The self, ego, identity, personality, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality