Category Archives: Contemporary American Society pre-2016

I’m not exactly sure what constitutes this unit, but my guess is: Kenneth Burke, Wayne C. Booth, Kant and Nietzsche. This week seemed to me to be about learning the basics/logistics/vocabulary of  rhetoric and then seeing, to a certain extent, … Continue reading →

In The Rhetoric of Hitler’s Battle, Kenneth Burke analyzes Hitler’s rhetorical form in his book Mein Kampf. Burke does this in part to uncover “what kind of ‘medicine’ this medicine-man has concocted” (191) but also to understand his tactics better … Continue reading →

Last week’s discussions focused primarily on the ideas surrounding rhetoric, and secondly political thought. This was done by a close examination of Booth and Burke’s writing. Personally, I understood the notion of rhetoric to be one of danger, and these … Continue reading →

Reading Booth’s “How Many ‘Rhetorics’?”, I could not help but recall an earlier discussion of Rhetoric that I had in a course on Plato. While the discussion was only short, the topics stuck in my head. The Euthydemus is a dialogue … Continue reading →

A lot of this topic focused on the idea of rhetoric.  At first I thought, we focused mainly on the idea of rhetoric, but the first unit was supposed to be focused on the idea of what American society looked … Continue reading →

This week, I was introduced to the discipline of rhetoric, which in simpler terms, involves the art of persuasion, speaking well, and expressing clearly (Booth 6). As a student of sociology, I have often discussed the role of public address … Continue reading →

This week in class we talked about Boothe’s views on Contemporary Rhetoric. This was of great interest to me as I had not read these texts in another class (unlike the Nietzche and Kant) and also had not really looked … Continue reading →