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Kenneth Burke + The Posthuman
2017,2021
Overview
While rhetoric as a discipline is firmly planted in humanism and
anthropology, posthumanism seeks to leave the human behind. This
highly original examination of Kenneth Burke's thought grapples
with these ostensibly contradictory concepts as opportunities for
invention, revision, and, importantly, transdisciplinary knowledge
making.
Rather than simply mapping posthumanist rhetorics onto Burke's
scholarship, Kenneth Burke + The Posthuman focuses on the
multiplicity of ideas found both in his work and in the idea of
posthumanism. Taking varied approaches organized within a framework
of boundaries and futures, the contributors show that studying the
humanist theories of Burke in this way creates a satisfyingly
chaotic web of interconnections. The essays look at how Burke's
writing on the human mind and technology, from his earliest works
to his very latest revisions, interrelates with current concepts
such as new materiality and coevolution. Throughout, the
contributors pay close attention to the fluidity, concerns, and
contradictions inherent in language, symbolism, and
subjectivity.
A unique, illuminating exploration of the contested relationship
between bodies and language, this inherently transdisciplinary book
will propel important future inquiry by scholars of rhetoric,
Burke, and posthumanism.
In addition to the editors, the contributors are Casey Boyle,
Kristie Fleckenstein, Nathan Gale, Julie Jung, Steven B. Katz,
Steven LeMieux, Jodie Nicotra, Jeff Pruchnic, Timothy Richardson,
Thomas Rickert, and Robert Wess.
Publisher
Penn State University Press,Pennsylvania State University Press
Subject
ISBN
9780271079080, 0271079088, 9780271080338, 0271080337
