Kenneth Duva Burke was a theorist as well as literary philosopher American. His primary fields of study were the Rhetoric and Looks.
He studied at Ohio State University and also later at Columbia University (1916-1917), quiting to become a writer. In Greenwich Village had contact with the vanguard of American artists such as Hart Crane, Cowley, Gorham Munson and Allen Tate. Produced Catholic family members ended up being agnostic.
Influenced by the suggestions of Sigmund Freud and also Friedrich Nietzsche devoted to the works of Shakespeare. Important thinkers of the twentieth century state their impacts: Harold Bloom, Stanley Cavell, Susan Sontag, his pupils at the University of Chicago, and Erving Goffman.
Burke devoted himself to the research of rhetoric as a form of solution to humanity. Burke calls this dramatization evaluation (dramatism).
In his publication Language to Symbolic Activity (1966), Burke specifies male as an animal that makes use of symbols. This statement reveals the "reality" as being constructed from the symbolic system.
Our collection contains 6 quotes who is written / told by Kenneth.
"Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of reality. And any selection of reality must, in certain circumstances, function as a deflection of reality"
"We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations"
"Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language"
"For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state, with its high degree of specialization, make for corresponding classification of status"
"Dignity belongs to the conquered"
"Creation implies authority in the sense of originator. The possibility of a 'Fall' is implied in a Covenant insofar as the idea of a Covenant implies the possibility of its being violated"
