That Leviathan, the Public Mind. A personal Construction of Reality

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Editie in limba engleza.

 Contents:
• Explanatory note • Take This Walz • October, and Then November, and Then December • Another September, and Then October, and Then November, and Then December • December 31, 2020
  This book continues the story of Writing as Performance: A diagnosis of an education system in the manner of a personal narrative which includes episodes of social construction of reality through and within discourse. In doing so, it illustrates the theoretical claim that a paradigm shift from an informational approach to discourse to a communicational approach to discourse (Stanley Deetz) would free social agents from the exigency of relating to one another in ways which were already constructed for them for the purpose of surveillance, dominance, and control. Social agents may very well construct their realities through discourse on their own and so contribute to social values such as freedom, justice, and harmony from their singular positions. - Georgina Oana Gabor