Rhetoric Review Apr 2018

Plato, Mary Baker Eddy, and Kenneth Burke:Can We Talk About Substance?

Louise Zamparutti University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

Abstract

Kenneth Burke confessed that Permanence and Change was a secularization of the writing of Mary Baker Eddy that he learned in his Christian Science childhood. Eddy’s Platonic treatment of substance as “truth” engages with the tension between the symbolic and the nonsymbolic, foreshadowing Burke’s treatment of substance in relation to symbol, nonsymbol, and identification. The ways in which substance and identification interact in the works of Plato, Eddy, and Burke follow a line of discursive development that can illuminate critical review of how different forms of public discourse argue for “truth.”

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Rhetoric Review
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2018-04-03
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10.1080/07350198.2018.1424479
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