A psycho-socio-philosophical etymology which arrives at the
conclusion that language is subjective. Burke superimposes on his
analysis his own system of thought dramatism which has as a
generating principle, the concepts of act, ??cen??, agency,
purpose. Section two considers seven primary philosophies, and
their outstanding proponents (Bobbes, Spinoza, Darwin, Marx,
Santayana, Hume, Kant, etc.) fall under his scrutiny, somewhat
superficially. Illustrating his theory are passages from Ib??n,
Shakespeare, the Lake poets, O'Neill, Dostoevsky - reflections of a
superior literary judgment. A thoughtful, perceptive consideration
of motives behind human language, acts, institutions - -?? at times
too intent on propounding a thesis. Stimulating mental cal
??sthenice for the dilettante. Limited market. (Kirkus Reviews)
""A Grammar of Motives," published in 1945, is the first volume of
a gigantic trilogy, planned to include "A Rhetoric of Motives" and
"A Symbolic of Motives," which will be called something like "On
Human Relations," The aim of the whole series is no less than the
comprehensive exploration of human motives and the forms of thought
and expression built around them, and its ultimate object,
expression in the epigraph: "'ad bellum purificandum, '" is to
eliminate the whole world of conflict that can be eliminated
through understanding. The method or key metaphor for the study is
'drama' or 'dramatism, ' and the basic terms of analysis are the
dramatistic pentad: Act, Scene, Agent, Agency, and Purpose. The
"Grammar," which Burke confesses in the Introduction grew from a
prolegomena of a few hundred words to nearly 200,000, is a
consideration of the purely internal relationship of these five
terms, 'their possibilities of transformation, their range of
permutations and combinations'..."--Stanley Edgar Hyman, author of
"The Armed Vision"
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