The Presence of Self

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The Presence of Self is written by R. S. Perinbanayagam and published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1461645263 (ISBN 10) and 9781461645269 (ISBN 13).

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.