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The Rhetoric of Religion: Studies in Logology
Paperback, 327 pages
Published
April 1st 1970
by University of California Press
(first published March 2nd 1970)
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Though I believe Burke would have benefited from reading Schopenhauer, rather than Hegel, both in style and in content, he takes an interesting approach to religion, particularly Western Christianity. He is attempting to "transcend" theology by showing how the principles of Christianity exist implicitly within linguistics. Unfortunately, his notions of theology are quite vapid, often misconstrued, and always constrained by a Western academic worldview. I highly recommend reading his constructed...more
Kenneth Burke’s analysis of religion derived on the study of a dramatic process. He stated that through order – how life or society revolved around – could only be broken through disorder. Through disorder, people’s lives change, society might crumble, and they find blame for the cause by looking at the person responsible – i.e. a scapegoat – to help purify said disorder: “If guilt, then the need for redemption, which involves sacrifice, which in turn allows for substitution” (p. 314). To highli...more
this book took me a really long time before i could get into it and dare i say understand it, i am not sure if i actually do understand it but there are some really interesting discussions, if you are interested in theory or a dialogue that Burke creates between the devil and god.
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Kenneth Duva Burke was a major American literary theorist and philosopher. Burke's primary interests were in rhetoric and aesthetics.
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