edited by Bernard L. Brock
contributions by James W. Chesebro, Carole Blair, Celeste Condit and Bernard L. Brock
University of Alabama Press, 1995
Cloth: 978-0-8173-0731-8 | Paper: 978-0-8173-5334-6
Library of Congress Classification P92.5.B87K46 1995
Dewey Decimal Classification 121.68092

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Insights into the problem of our relation to language

Kenneth Burke and Contemporary European Thought: A Rhetoric in Transition reflects the present transitional nature of rhetoric and society. Its purpose is to relate the rhetorical theory of Burke to the theories of four major European philosophers—Jürgen Habermas, Ernesto Grassi, Foucault, and Jacques Derrida—as they discuss the nature of language and its central role in society.
 
This book describes a rhetorical world in transition but not a world in chaos. It points to the centrality of symbolism in theories of language and rhetoric and illustrates Burke’s influence as a pivotal things and theorist in the communication arts and sciences, suggesting that the observations regarding shifting paradigms and perspectives made by other scholars are indeed emergent in the realm of rhetoric. It also regards the powerful impact of language and symbolic action in both the critique and construction of human knowledge and augurs a central role for rhetoric in the intellectual and social transformations of this and the next century.
 

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