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Kenneth Burke





Kenneth Burke

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born
May 05, 1897

died
November 19, 1993

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Kenneth Duva Burke was a major American literary theorist and philosopher. Burke's primary interests were in rhetoric and aesthetics.



Average rating: 3.96 · 465 ratings · 37 reviews · 28 distinct works
A Rhetoric of Motives
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 1969
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A Grammar of Motives
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 1969
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The Philosophy of Literary ...
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 1941 — 2 editions
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Counter-Statement
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1953 — 2 editions
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Permanence and Change: An A...
4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 1965 — 3 editions
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Language as Symbolic Action...
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1966 — 2 editions
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Attitudes Toward History
4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1984 — 2 editions
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The Rhetoric of Religion
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1970
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On Symbols and Society
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3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1989 — 2 editions
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Towards a Better Life: Bein...
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1982
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More books by Kenneth Burke…
“The progress of human enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken.”
Kenneth Burke

“Ecology teaches us “that the total economy of the planet cannot be guided by an efficient rationale of exploitation alone,” wrote Burke more than 70 years ago, “but that the exploiting part must eventually suffer if it too greatly disturbs the balance of the whole.”
Kenneth Burke

“It's more complicated than that." TL in "The Rhetoric of Religion”
Kenneth Burke