Kenneth Burke A Dialogue of Motives

Kenneth Burke: A Dialogue of Motives employs the philosophy of ethics of Emmanuel Levinas to develop a uniquely dramatistic philosophy of ethics. Jeffrey Murray analyzes Kenneth Burke's A Grammar of Motives and A Rhetoric of Motives and offers the notion of a dialogue of motives as a completion of Burke's proposed trilogy and as a supplement to Burke's own tools for rhetorical criticism.

Jeffrey W. Murray is currently working as an independent scholar in Pennsylvania

List of Figures

v

Preface

vii

Acknowledgments

ix

Introduction

1

(8)

Part One: Building a Dramatistic Theory of Ethics

Kenneth Burke, Ethics, and the Call of the Other

9

(32)

Introduction

9

(4)

Kenneth Burke's Silencing of the Other

13

(6)

Emmanuel Levina's Phenomenology of the Other

19

(12)

Conclusion

31

(2)

Notes to Chapter One

33

(8)

An Other Ethics for Kenneth Burke

41

(28)

Introduction

41

(1)

A Definition of Human Being-Together

41

(6)

The Dramatistic Nonad

47

(8)

The Parable as Representative Anecdote

55

(7)

Conclusion

62

(1)

Notes to Chapter Two

63

(6)

Rhetorical Criticism and the Call of the Other

69

(30)

Introduction

69

(1)

Ethical-Rhetorical Criticism: A Synthesis of Levinas and Burke

70

(5)

Nazi Discourse and the Call of the Other

75

(9)

Senator Edward Kennedy and the Call of the Other

84

(8)

Conclusion

92

(3)

Notes to Chapter Three

95

(4)

Part Two: A Dialogue of Motives

Recalcitrance and Irony: Groundwork of a Dramatistic Ethics

99

(20)

Introduction

99

(4)

The Recalcitrance Other

103

(5)

Irony as the Ground of Ethics

108

(4)

Conclusion

112

(3)

Notes to Chapter Four

115

(4)

Grammar, Rhetoric, Dialogue: A Trilogy of Motives

119

(28)

Introduction

119

(1)

A Trilogy of Motives

120

(7)

The Subject and the Grammeme

127

(8)

Dramatistic Dialogue

135

(6)

Conclusion

141

(2)

Notes to Chapter Five

143

(4)

Dialectic, Dialogue, and Justice

147

(22)

Introduction

147

(1)

Dialectic and Dialogue

148

(8)

From Ethics to Justice

156

(4)

Conclusion: Dramatistic Dialogue and Justice

160

(5)

Notes to Chapter Six

165

(4)

Concluding Acknowledgment

169

(6)

Bibliography

175

(10)

Index

185

(4)

Author's Biographical Sketch

189

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Kenneth Burke A Dialogue of Motives

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