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Agent, Person, Subject, Self - A Theory of Ontology, Interaction, and Infrastructure (Hardcover)
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Agent, Person, Subject, Self - A Theory of Ontology, Interaction, and Infrastructure (Hardcover)
Series: Foundations of Human Interaction
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This book offers both a naturalistic and critical theory of signs,
minds, and meaning-in-the-world. It provides a reconstructive
rather than deconstructive theory of the individual, one which both
analytically separates and theoretically synthesizes a range of
faculties that are often confused and conflated: agency (understood
as a causal capacity), subjectivity (understood as a
representational capacity), selfhood (understood as a reflexive
capacity), and personhood (understood as a sociopolitical capacity
attendant on being an agent, subject, or self). It argues that
these facilities are best understood from a semiotic stance that
supersedes the usual intentional stance. And, in so doing, it
offers a pragmatism-grounded approach to meaning and mediation that
is general enough to account for processes that are as embodied and
embedded as they are articulated and enminded. In particular, while
this theory is focused on human-specific modes of meaning, it also
offers a general theory of meaning, such that the agents, subjects
and selves in question need not always, or even usually, map onto
persons. And while this theory foregrounds agents, persons,
subjects and selves, it does this by theorizing processes that
often remain in the background of such (often erroneously)
individuated figures: ontologies (akin to culture, but generalized
across agentive collectivities), interaction (not only between
people, but also between people and things, and anything outside or
in-between), and infrastructure (akin to context, but generalized
to include mediation at any degree of remove).
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