Advances in the History of Rhetoric Jul 2013

Between Motion and Action: The Dialectical Role of Affective Identification in Kenneth Burke

Don J. Kraemer California State Polytechnic University

Abstract

ABSTRACT Taking seriously Kenneth Burke's claim that identification follows property's logic discloses identification's rootedness not only in nonsymbolic motion but also in attitudinal sensation, that midway realm between sheer motion and symbolic action. Burke's key distinction is among three terms, not two—implying consubstantial (not antithetical) relations between pure persuasion and identification. Thus understood, these relations have implications for the New Rhetoric, in particular for how it frames the question of justice.

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Advances in the History of Rhetoric
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2013-07-03
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10.1080/15362426.2013.827596
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  1. Kraemer (2016)
    Reasonable and Rational: Renewed Loci for Rhetorical Justice
    Philosophy & Rhetoric

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