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Kenneth Burke: A Sociology of Knowledge: Dramatism, Ideology, and Rhetoric

Kenneth Burke: A Sociology of Knowledge: Dramatism, Ideology, and Rhetoric

Beach, J. M.

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Philosophy

ISBN10: 1470130009
ISBN13: 9781470130008
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: Feb 1 2012
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.31
Height: 0.24 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The American philosopher and literary critic Kenneth Burke was an ideologist (although he never called himself this, and added to that, he spent most of his life avoiding the Marxist term of ideology to describe human systems of ideas). Burke instead used the terms orientation, rationalization, perspective, critical perspective, way of life, critical mind-frame, Weltanschauung, and gestalt to describe basically the main idea behind ideology: a system of ideas, aiming at social or political action. The first definition of ideology that Burke lists in A Rhetoric of Motives (his only book to mention the term ideology directly) is the study, development, criticism of ideas, which is exactly what Burke did for his entire philosophical life. Thus one could argue that the preeminent idea at the center of Burke's thought is the role and function of ideology in terms of human individual and socio-cultural development and communication. It is my purpose to critically locate and order the many divergent trails of ideology that Burke blazed in his major works in order to present, through his many models, a tangible theory of ideology.

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