Rhetoric, ideology, and the social totality: Kenneth Burke, Fredric Jameson, and the Althusserian Tradition

2004 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Carmichael
Keyword(s):  
Kenneth Burke ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Totality ◽  
Fredric Jameson

Althusser: Blowup (Lineaments of a Different Thought)

PMLA ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 123 (3) ◽  
pp. 762-779 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Carlos Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Political Unconscious ◽  
Alliance Politics ◽  
The North ◽  
American Scholar ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Social Totality ◽  
Historical Truth ◽  
Fredric Jameson

Nothing is more remarkable in the tradition of Althusserian Marxism than the silence that has dogged the work of Juan Carlos Rodríguez. One thinks of the relative importance attached to the work of Terry Eagleton and Fredric Jameson. Some might believe the discrepancy is a matter of merit rather than of willful or unconscious neglect. But even the most casual comparison of Rodríguez's Theory and History of Ideological Production with Eagleton's Criticism and Ideology (1975) and with Jameson's The Political Unconscious (1981) suggests that this can hardly be the case. The parallel with Jameson is particularly intriguing. Like Rodríguez, the North American scholar accepts Louis Althusser's view of the social totality as a “decentered structure” in which various levels develop in “relative autonomy” and in which different feudal and capitalist matrices coexist. Also like Rodríguez, he considers literary works to be a form of ideological discourse that represses historical truth. Why, then, the silence that surrounds Rodríguez? The answer lies in the extent to which Jameson's work recontains diverse critical positions in the larger horizon of Marxism. Such a practice, as Eagleton has argued, is congenial to a dominant American pragmatism and eclecticism, as are the presiding Marxist Hegelian categories of reification and commodification (60–62). The consequences, politically, are found in Jameson's amorphous brand of “alliance” politics. The material situation of Rodríguez was very different. Given the militancy of the working class in Spain, his presiding categories were those of exploitation and class conflict, which combine to form the basis of a revolutionary proletarian politics that is anything but acceptable to the North American academy.

Creatures creating creators: the potential of rhetoric

1994 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.N. Vorster
Keyword(s):  
Kenneth Burke ◽  
Epistemic Status ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
Radical Theory ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Creation

AbstractIn the current uncertainty prevailing in the social and human sciences, rhetoric has achieved epistemic status. The article proposes that a radical theory of rhetoric, following in the wake of Kenneth Burke and emphasising rhetoric as the creation and use of symbols to induce cooperation, can be of value to studies in religion.

scholarly journals Ideology and its relation to culture in the work of Stuart Hall

Sociologija ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 426-444
Author(s):  
Milan Urosevic
Keyword(s):  
Main Subject ◽  
Scientific Objectivity ◽  
Epistemological Problem ◽  
Theoretical Position ◽  
The Social ◽  
Stuart Hall ◽  
Social Totality ◽  
Internal Mechanism ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The main subject of this paper is Halls understanding of ideology. In order to explain this we will first elaborate his theoretical position and his understanding of society as a complex totality of interconnected elements. In this part we will also show how Hall explains the relationship of culture to other elements of the social totality. His understanding of ideology will be divided into two sections: (1) the elaboration of its internal mechanism of operation and (2) the elaboration of its effects. In the first part we will explain the relationship of culture and ideology in his theory. Afterwards we will show some criticism of Halls understanding of ideology as well as some of the solutions to them that Hall provides. In the end we will point to the epistemological problem of the relationship of his theory to the criteria of scientific objectivity as a contradiction that he doesn?t manage to solve.

The Political Uncanny, or the Return of Domination: The Shining

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sulgi Lie
Keyword(s):  
Spectral Analysis ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Second Step ◽  
The Political ◽  
Film Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Totality ◽  
Genre Film

My concluding interpretation of Kubrick’s The Shining is once again a synthetic reading of the whole work using the tools of film analysis. In a Lacanian/Žižekian extension of Jameson’s reading of the film, I will demonstrate how Kubrick, in the guise of a popular genre film, creates a spectral analysis of the postmodern, late capitalist totality. In a second step I seek to go beyond Jameson in order to prove that The Shining, in its natural-history totalization of capitalism, is even more total than Jameson ascribes to the film in his class-history reading. Like perhaps no other film, The Shining opens itself up to the wounds of the social totality, but at the same time, in its hermetic formal perfection, the film creates the counter-measure of a purely aesthetic totality, which may itself be utopian.

RESISTANCE TO THE GILDED AGE: ROBERT HERRICK'S RADICAL MIDDLE CLASS

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-162
Author(s):  
Brynnar Swenson
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Present Moment ◽  
Literary Realism ◽  
The Social ◽  
Economic Trends ◽  
Social Totality ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Precarious Situation

Often overlooked, Robert Herrick (1868–1938) was an experimental novelist who produced a sustained and critical engagement with the economic, political, and aesthetic effects of unregulated capitalist expansion in the late nineteenth century. Focusing onThe Web of Life(1900) andTogether(1908), this essay argues that Herrick's novels forcefully document a radical middle-class political position and demonstrate how the middle class was capable of apprehending and resisting the functionings of capitalism—especially its fragmentation of lived experience and its foreclosure of any practical exterior to the social totality. Given how recent economic trends toward deregulation and privatization have resulted in a precarious situation for the middle class worldwide, Herrick's depiction of the emergence of the modern middle class in 1890s Chicago also presents a dynamic foil from which to view our present moment. Though his genre-bending and politically ambiguous literary and political experiments have long contributed to critical confusion and even dismissal of his work, today Herrick's novels are a powerful tool for rethinking the long-accepted understanding of the relationship between literary realism, the struggles surrounding the emergence of corporate capitalism, and the political standpoint of the professional middle class.

scholarly journals Manuais Pedagógicos em Comparação: Cours Pratique de Pédagogie, de Daligault (1851), e Compêndio de Pedagogia, de B. J. M. Cordeiro (1874)

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 101
Author(s):  
José Carlos Souza Araujo
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Teacher Training ◽  
The Other ◽  
Normal Schools ◽  
Teacher Formation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Totality ◽  
Siglo Xix ◽  
The One ◽  
Formación Docente

O objeto dessa investigação é de caráter comparativo, e envolve dois manuais pedagógicos, destinados à formação docente, que vieram a público no Brasil na segunda metade do século XIX, um de origem francesa, e o outro brasileira. Serão privilegiadas as concepções de Educação, ângulo teórico da Pedagogia, neles presentes. Seus autores são, pela ordem, Jean-Baptiste Daligault e Braulio Jayme Muniz Cordeiro. Tais manuais serão enfocados como expressões singulares da Pedagogia da Essência, através da vertente humanista cristã, mas encontram-se assentados em relações culturais, políticas, religiosas, educacionais e escolares. De um lado, são singulares em relação à totalidade social, constituindo-se como compartilhantes do processo de formação e qualificação docente no Brasil, àquela altura ainda através das escolas de primeiras letras; de outro, em termos de totalidade social, estão radicados em concepções fundadas na Antropologia, na Ética, na Metafísica de caráter teológico, na Política, no Civismo, na Teologia, na Pedagogia, porém demarcadas pela visão de mundo cristã.Palavras-chave: Pedagogia. Manuais Pedagógicos. Formação de Professores. Escolas Normais. Teorias Pedagógicas. AbstractThe object of this research is a comparative one, and involves two pedagogical manuals, destined to the teacher formation, that came to public in Brazil in the second half of the nineteenth century, one of French origin, and the other Brazilian. The conceptions of Education, theoretical angle of Pedagogy, present in them will be privileged. Its authors are, in order, Jean-Baptiste Daligault and Braulio Jayme Muniz Cordeiro. These manuals will be focused as singular expressions of Essay Pedagogy, through the Christian humanist side, but are based on cultural, political, religious, educational and school relations. On the one hand, they are singular in relation to the social totality, constituting themselves as sharers of the process of teacher training and qualification in Brazil, at that time still through the schools of first letters; on the other, in terms of social totality, are rooted in concepts based on Anthropology, Ethics, Metaphysics of theological character, Politics, Civics, Theology, and Pedagogy, but demarcated by the Christian worldview.Keywords: Pedagogy. Pedagogical Manuals. Teacher training. Normal Schools. Pedagogical Theories.ResumenEl objeto de esta investigación es una comparación entre dos manuales pedagógicos destinados a la formación docente, los cuales vieron la luz en Brasil en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX, uno de origen francés y otro brasileño. Serán privilegiadas las concepciones sobre Educación y la visión teórica de la Pedagogía presentes en ellos. Sus autores son, por orden, Jean-Baptiste Daligault y Braulio Jayme Muniz Cordeiro. Tales manuales serán enfocados como expresiones singulares de la Pedagogía de la Esencia, a través de la vertiente humanista cristiana, pero encontrándose asentados en las relaciones culturales, políticas, religiosas, educacionales y escolares. De un lado, son singulares con respecto a la totalidad social, constituyéndose como participantes del proceso de formación y calificación docente en Brasil, entonces todavía a la altura de las primeras letras; de otro lado, en términos de totalidad social, están anclados en concepciones fundamentadas en la Antropología, la Ética, la Metafísica de carácter teológico, en la Política, el Civismo, la Teología, la Pedagogía y por eso demarcadas en la visión cristiana del mundo.Palabras-claves: Pedagogía. Manuales Pedagógicos. Formación de Profesores. Escuelas Normales. Teorías Pedagógicas.

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