Richard H Thames
Biographic Data
| ID | 6850737 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard H Thames |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard H |
| FAMILY NAME | Thames |
| SIGNATURE | THAMES R H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duquesne University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
For Love of the Farther Shore: Kenneth Burke’s Mythic Imagery of Mysticism and Transcendence
Burke’s Emerson essay ends with a “mythic image” of transcendence, alluding to a line from the Aeneid concerning those not properly buried being denied access to the Cocytus’ farther shore—“they stretched forth their hands through love of the opposite shore.” The image draws together themes of longing, love, death, and crossing from disparate sources: the Grammar’s discussion of Plato’s Symposium and Phaedrus in which love (Greek eros) is drawn t…
Unforgetting a tradition: Kenneth Burke, Karl Marx and Aristotelian naturalism
Kenneth Burke was profoundly influenced by Marx but more philosophically than politically or economically. Additionally rather than contrasting Soviet communism and American capitalism, Burke critiques their shared scientism—his adaptation of Marx ironically proving crucial to his critique. Burke assimilates Marx and Spinoza into Aristotelian naturalism (or realism), a tradition that dominated American philosophy 1900-60, one with which Marx was …
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Unforgetting a tradition: Kenneth Burke, Karl Marx and Aristotelian naturalism
Kenneth Burke was profoundly influenced by Marx but more philosophically than politically or economically. Additionally rather than contrasting Soviet communism and American capitalism, Burke critiques their shared scientism—his adaptation of Marx ironically proving crucial to his critique. Burke assimilates Marx and Spinoza into Aristotelian naturalism (or realism), a tradition that dominated American philosophy 1900-60, one with which Marx was …
For Love of the Farther Shore: Kenneth Burke’s Mythic Imagery of Mysticism and Transcendence
Burke’s Emerson essay ends with a “mythic image” of transcendence, alluding to a line from the Aeneid concerning those not properly buried being denied access to the Cocytus’ farther shore—“they stretched forth their hands through love of the opposite shore.” The image draws together themes of longing, love, death, and crossing from disparate sources: the Grammar’s discussion of Plato’s Symposium and Phaedrus in which love (Greek eros) is drawn t…
Rhetoric and Communication Studies (2 works) · Beauty (1 works) · Capitalism (1 works) · Comedy (1 works) · Communism (1 works) · Dialectic (1 works) · Epistemology (1 works) · Gloom (1 works) · Ideal (ethics (1 works) · Law (1 works)