Kenneth Burke + The Posthuman Kenneth Burke + The Posthuman
RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric

Kenneth Burke + The Posthuman

Chris Mays and Others
    • $26.99
    • $26.99

Publisher Description

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.

GENRE
Professional & Technical
RELEASED
2017
October 25
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
248
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penn State University Press
SELLER
The Pennsylvania State University Press
SIZE
1.4
MB

More Books Like This

Discussing New Materialism Discussing New Materialism
2019
Technoscience and Cyberculture Technoscience and Cyberculture
2014
Marking Time Marking Time
2009
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Posthumanism The Bloomsbury Handbook of Posthumanism
2020
Performance and Posthumanism Performance and Posthumanism
2021
Social Epistemology and Technology Social Epistemology and Technology
2015

More Books by Chris Mays, Nathaniel A. Rivers & Kellie Sharp-Hoskins

The Beatitudes Manifesto The Beatitudes Manifesto
2011
Invisible Effects Invisible Effects
2021

Other Books in This Series

From Hysteria to Hormones From Hysteria to Hormones
2018
Arguing with Numbers Arguing with Numbers
2021
Robert Burton’s Rhetoric Robert Burton’s Rhetoric
2020
Ableist Rhetoric Ableist Rhetoric
2019
Democracy as Fetish Democracy as Fetish
2019
Infertility Infertility
2016