{"product_id":"9780809322077","title":"Kenneth Burke and the Conversation after Philosophy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout much of his long life (1897­–1993), Kenneth Burke was recognized as a leading American intellectual, perhaps the most significant critic writing in English since Coleridge. From about 1950 on, rhetoricians in both English and speech began to see him as a major contributor to the New Rhetoric. But despite Burke's own claims to be writing philosophy and some notice from reviewers and critics that his work was philosophically significant, Timothy W. Crusius is the first to access his work as philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCrusius traces Burke's commitment and contributions to philosophy prior to 1945, from \u003ci\u003eCounter-Statement\u003c\/i\u003e (1931) through \u003ci\u003eThe Philosophy of Literary Form\u003c\/i\u003e (1941). While Burke might have been a late modernist thinker, Crusius shows that Burke actually starts from a position closely akin to such postmodern figures as Michel Foucault and Richard Rorty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCrusius then examines Burke's work from \u003ci\u003eA Grammar of Motives\u003c\/i\u003e (1945) up to his last published essays, drawing most heavily on \u003ci\u003eA Rhetoric of Motives\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Rhetoric of Religion\u003c\/i\u003e, and uncollected essays from the 1970s. This part concerns Burke's contributions to human activities always closely associated with rhetoric-hermeneutics, dialectic, and praxis. Burke's highly developed notion of our species as the \"symbol-using animal,\" argues Crusius, draws together the various strands of his later philosophy—his concern with interpretation, with dialectic and dialogue, with a \u003ci\u003epraxis\u003c\/i\u003e devoted to awareness and control of the self-deceiving and potentially self-destructive motives inherent in language itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Southern Illinois University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47031081468144,"sku":"9780809322077","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780809322077_p0.jpg?v=1763741397","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780809322077","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}