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On Symbols and Society (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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On Symbols and Society (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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Kenneth Burke's innovative use of dramatism and dialectical method
have made him a powerful critical force in an extraordinary variety
of disciplines--education, philosophy, history, psychology,
religion, and others. While most widely acclaimed as a literary
critic, Burke has elaborated a perspective toward the study of
behavior and society that holds immense significance and rich
insights for sociologists. This original anthology brings together
for the first time Burke's key writings on symbols and social
relations to offer social scientists access to Burke's thought.
In his superb introductory essay, Joseph R. Gusfield traces the
development of Burke's approach to human action and its
relationship to other similar sources of theory and ideas in
sociology; he discusses both Burke's influence on sociologists and
the limits of his perspective. Burke regards literature as a form
of human behavior--and human behavior as embedded in language. His
lifework represents a profound attempt to understand the
implications for human behavior based on the fact that humans are
"symbol-using animals." As this volume demonstrates, the work that
Burke produced from the 1930s through the 1960s stands as both
precursor and contemporary key to recent intellectual movements
such as structuralism, symbolic anthropology, phenomenological and
interpretive sociology, critical theory, and the renaissance of
symbolic interaction.
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