The Threshold of the Self

Vivian, Bradford

doi:10.1353/par.2000.0029

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“…For scholars working between or at the limit of existential planes, at the threshold of the self (2001), the liminal space of "undoing, redoing and modifying of this very limit" is fundamental: "…rather than talking about death, I would prefer to talk about threshold, frontier, limit, exhaustion, and suspension: About void as the very space for an infinite number of possibilities" [30]. This led to a deep reflection on the notion of emergence that includes elements of our past self, who we imagine ourselves to be, our embodied relationships with others, and our belonging to what Merleau-Ponty dubbed the "flesh of the world" [45].…”

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Creative Qualitative Research in Behavioral Science: A Pragmatic Epistemology of Experimenting

Fendt¹

2022

Curr Res Psychol Behav Sc

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This appraisal evokes the much-debated dysfunctional relationship between organizational research and practice. While research on creativity in the work place has long evidenced that actors must feel confident to be “allowed” to experiment, err, play and take risks so as to exploit all spaces of the possible, in research imprecision or mistake-making is considered taboo. We conjecture that – especially in a fast-paced uncertain research context – hearing,, experimentation and happenstance are indispensable to research striving to generate relevant novel knowledge and theory, and that they are not sufficiently addressed through existing research methods. We sketch out an epistemology of experimenting, grounded in pragmatism, to remedy this gap.

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Creative Qualitative Research in Behavioral Science: A Pragmatic Epistemology of Experimenting

Fendt¹

2022

Curr Res Psychol Behav Sc

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“…As such, I suggest that Stanton's speech has much to teach rhetorical theorists about what Bradford Vivian has called the "modes of thought and speech" by which the self is disclosed. 13 Situating "Solitude of Self" in a confessional tradition is not as farfetched as it may seem. The widely read feminist historian Ann Douglas argues that less than twenty years after Stanton's death in 1902, her home city of New York would turn the attempt to speak with "terrible honesty" of the self into something of a modish fashion.…”

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Stanton's “Solitude of Self” as Public Confession

Tell

2010

Communication Studies

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Abstract:Elizabeth Cady Stanton opened her now famous "Solitude of Self" by asserting her desire to make manifest the "individuality of each human soul." Using Stanton's attempt to display the human soul as a case study, I consider in this essay the capacities of language to disclose the self. I argue that, for Stanton, self-disclosure is fundamentally performative: the "Solitude of Self" evokes the "inner-being we call ourself" through a reliance on, and a subsequent violation of, a distinctively narrative logic. As this violation takes from the audience the sense of order that the narrative had theretofore provided, it puts the audience in a position where they, now shorn of narrative and the order it provided, can experience firsthand the solitude of self.

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Disability, Connectivity and Transgressing the Autonomous Body

Gibson

2006

J Med Humanit

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This paper explores the interconnectedness of persons with disabilities, technologies and the environment by problematizing Western notions of the independent, autonomous subject. Drawing from Deleuze and Guattari's reconfiguration of the static subject as active becoming, prevailing discourses valorizing independence are critiqued as contributing to the marginalization of bodies marked as disabled. Three examples of disability "dependencies"-man-dog, man-machine, and woman-woman connectivities-are used to illustrate that subjectivity is partial and transitory. Disability connectivity thus serves a signpost for an expanded understanding of subjectivity and suggests a radically altered ethics that is no longer premised on individual rights.

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The Threshold of the Self

Cited by 16 publications

References 15 publications

Creative Qualitative Research in Behavioral Science: A Pragmatic Epistemology of Experimenting

Creative Qualitative Research in Behavioral Science: A Pragmatic Epistemology of Experimenting

Stanton's “Solitude of Self” as Public Confession

Disability, Connectivity and Transgressing the Autonomous Body

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