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"But the point of Burke's work, and the significance of his achievement, is not that he points out that religion and language affect each other, for this has been said before, but that he proceeds to demonstrate how this is so by reference to a specific symbolic context. After a discussion 'On Words and The Word,' he analysess verbal action in St. Augustine's Confessions. He then discusses the first three chapters of Genesis, and ends with a brilliant and profound 'Prologue in Heaven,' an imaginary dialogue between the Lord and Satan in which he proposes that we begin our study of human motives with complex theories of transcendence,' rather than with terminologies developed in the use of simplified laboratory equipment. . . . Burke now feels, after some forty years of search, that he has created a model of the symbolic act which breaks through the rigidities of the 'sacred-secular' dichotomy, and at the same time shows us how we get from secular and sacred realms of action over the bridge of language. . . . Religious systems are systems of action based on communication in society. They are great social dramas which are played out on earth before an ultimate audience, God. But where theology confronts the developed cosmological drama in the 'grand style,' that is, as a fully developed cosmological drama for its religious content, the 'logologer' can be further studied not directly as knowledge but as anecdotes that help reveal for us the quandaries of human governance." --Hugh Dalziel Duncan from Critical Responses to Kenneth Burke, 1924 - 1966, edited by William H. Rueckert (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1969).
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About the Author
Kenneth Duva Burke (May 5, 1897 - November 19, 1993) was an American literary theorist and critic. Burke was awarded the following:Creative Arts Award from Brandeis University in 1967National Endowment for the Arts award in 1968National Council on the Arts award in 1969Gold medal from the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1975National Medal for Literature in 1981Elmer Holmes Bobst Award in 1984 And the following fellowships: Princeton Institute for Advanced Study (1949)Stanford University (1957)Rockefeller Foundation (1966)
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16 of 19 people found the following review helpful.
Religious discourse has a deep inner spiritual strength
By Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
Kenneth Burke is one great mind of the 20th century. In this book he studies religion, particularly Saint Augustine's writings and Confessions. Through this particular study he reveals his method that is one great tool indeed. He considers language to be made of signifying elements that are the association of a certain object (sounds or letters) and a meaning. Those elements are brought together through morphology or syntax to build compound words or sentences. But Kenneth Burke goes further than Saussure and considers the signifying elements that are repeated in a text and how they are positioned in relation with one another. It is from these networks of signifying elements that he derives the deeper meaning of a text. The relations can be built along lines of similarity or difference, or even opposition. The networked elements can be similar as for their sounds or letters, though different as for their morphological or syntactic environments, or actually opposed morphologically or syntactically, or simply semantically. This is extremely complex and rich and it leads to very powerful remarks. The second step is in line with the first. No individual element, sentence, image, simile, or any other linguistic entity has a meanig all by itself. The real meaning comes from the networks in which it is positioned and how it is positioned in this network. The third step is that the stating of any signifying element implies the possible stating of its antagon. Order implies disorder, time timelessness, etc. The creation of perfection implies imperfection and God states a thou-shalt-not which implies disobedience, doing what is not supposed to be done. This is fundamental. A society does not forbid something that does not exist. If a law says we must not do something it is because it is actually performed. If a society does not forbid something it can be because it does not exist at all or because it is perfectly seen as acceptable. The absence of a law does not imply anything one way or the other. The existence of a law implies that what it forbids exists and what it authorizes exists too, as well as, in both cases, what it does not forbid or what it does not allow. Kenneth Burke injects this approach into his linguistic reading of religious texts. This is extremely powerful and you have to read the book to see how he exploits such principles. From Genesis Kenneth Burke finds out time was created by God as his first creative act, hence it implies that God's eternity before creation was timeless and that God's eternity after the end will be timeless. Eternity is not the flow of time without a beginning nor an end, but eternity is the absolute absence of both flowing and time, hence eternity is a certain static present that fills in the whole conceivable expanse of duration. Time in this conception is only contained within the alpha of the beginning and the omega of the end. If we consider the Fall, it is the result of the thou-shalt-not that implies temptation and disobedience. The Fall implies then a salvation but this salvation can only be gained through a sacrifice that will reprieve the Fall. Burke follows this sacrifice through the whole Bible to show how it is brought to perfection with Christ : God sacrifices his own son to redeem men and women equally and give them the possibility to choose the right actions through perseverance that can only come from the grace God has given them, the grace that enables them to recapture their virginity in their communion in the reenacted sacrifice of the son that will reinforce the will of men and women to persevere in doing the right things. It is this grace and this communion in the reenacting of the sacrifice that boosts the will that makes perseverance possible, which is the Holy Spirit in man. This is the Word in its creating power and it implies communion with that godly energy, as well as with the sacrifice of the son and with other human beings. The conclusion that we can draw from this book is that the concept of God comes from the desire of man to transcend his material limits. He is subjected to time, hence he invents timelessness as perfect eternity. He is subjected to natural conditions, hence he invents supernatural conditions beyond his natural environment. A perfect religion, and there are many, will state that time cannot exists without timelessness, the flow of time without static eternity, nature without supernature, and that reality is the union and perfect balance between these antagons, hence static immobility that is seen as precarious from man's natural experience and having to be eternally regained or rebuilt from both man's and God's points of view, man's both natural and supernatural, material and mental experience. This approach regains a real understanding and the true power of religion : its inner logic, its inner energy. It is no longer an opiate but an empowerment and it will always be that provided it does not refuse to see changing natural conditions and to change the supernatural construct that needs to change along with natural conditions if the balance between the two has to be maintained. Beyond natural material elements man will always conceive of stronger forces and energies that are the real engine of our changing world, our changing time, and will dream of a world where change will no longer be necessary because perfection will be reached, hence timeless permanence. If we know this is a dream that drives us in life, we can assume it and hence accept to live in the real world and try to make it approach this dreamed perfection.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
25 of 27 people found the following review helpful.
A couple of detailed case studies of human motives
By Lawrance Bernabo
"The Rhetoric of Religion" is the unofficial third volume in Burke's second trilogy (a claim also made by some for "Language As Symbolic Action"), following his "Rhetoric" and "Grammar of Motives," although it is clearly neither the summation nor the completion of his line of inquiry begun in those other volumes. What makes this volume stand out is more the applied use of his concepts than their theoretical development. Burke offers a short discussion on "On Words and The Word" before proceeding to a detailed analysis of verbal action in St. Augustine's "Confessions." For me the key section is his analysis of the first three chapters of Genesis, where he works backwards to explain the creation of the Creation story, the best explication of Burke's Iron Law of History. Returning to his literary roots, the final section finds Burke offering a conversation between God and Satan in "Prologue in Heaven," where Burke literally puts his case before the highest court.
Ultimately, the point is one that Burke has sounded before: that we should not be using terminologies developed in laboratories for our study of human motives. Instead, Burke offers his theories of transcendence and the model of the symbolic act as developed over the previous four decades. Consequently, "The Rhetoric of Religion" is not a book with which to begin your inquiry into either Burke or the field of rhetoric and social theory, but rather the volume that provides a more practical application of his work. Like "Language As Symbolic Action," it should be read after going through his "Rhetoric" and "Grammar" volumes.
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