Re: Goffman and Existentialism

On Wed, 09 Jul 2003 08:10:34 -0700, Michael Pugliese <debsian@pacbell.net> 
wrote:

  Guess those pointers weren't explicit, enough, sigh.
Above all, in these early works we can see Erving Goffman as the 
ethnographer of the self. In The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life he 
provides us with an introduction to the sustenance of the self in only 
normally problematic situations--in the social establishments that are part 
of everyday life, interaction with people who are reasonably well equipped 
and well inclined to collaborate in sustaining mutually agreeable 
definitions of self. Individuals work their performance so as to provide 
others with the materials by which they infer that a creditable self 
confronts them. The self is seen as the product of the various means by 
which it is produced and maintained. In Goffman's summary words, there are 
the "back region with its tools for shaping the body, and a front region 
with its fixed props. There will be a team of persons whose activity on 
stage in conjunction with available props will constitute the scene from 
which the performed character's self will emerge, and another team, the 
audience, whose interpretive activity will be necessary for this 
enterprise. The self is a product of all of those arrangements, and in all 
of its parts bears the marks of this genesis." (p. 253)

> http://www.google.com/search?q=There+will+be+a+back+region+with+its+tools+for+shaping+the+body,+and+a+front+region
>
> http://itsa.ucsf.edu/~eliotf/Celebrating_Erving_Goffman.html
>
> On Wed, 09 Jul 2003 10:47:22 +0000, Seyed Javad <seyedjavad@hotmail.com> 
> wrote:
>
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I am looking currently at Goffman and Existentialism and was wondering 
> > if anybody could help me to locate this qoute:
> >
> > There will be a back region with its tools for shaping the body, and a 
> > front region with its fixed props. … The self is a product 
> > of all of these arrangements, and in all of its parts bears the marks of 
> > this genesis."
> >
> > I cannot locate this. Is there anybody who could kindly assist me in 
> > this regard?
> >
> > Kind
> >
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Michael Pugliese