A McKeonist Understanding of Kenneth Burke’s Rhetorical Realism in Particular and Constructivism in General

KB Journal: The Journal of the Kenneth Burke Society Jun 2015 web Open Access

A McKeonist Understanding of Kenneth Burke’s Rhetorical Realism in Particular and Constructivism in General

Abstract

Readers of KB Journal likely know Richard McKeon mainly through his essays on rhetoric and his relationship to Kenneth Burke. But McKeon was first and foremost a philosopher who came to rhetoric in mid-career, so that his work is a philosophical path to and defense of rhetoric. This path, moreover, precisely because of its philosophical depth, offers insight into why "the linguistic turn," which began sooner than is commonly thought today, culminated in "the rhetorical turn" that informs constructivist theorizing in general and that is perhaps best exemplified by Burke's "rhetorical realism" in particular.

Journal: KB Journal: The Journal of the Kenneth Burke Society
Published: 2015-06
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Topics: modern rhetorical theory rhetorical criticism
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