<div dir="auto">I sat in on that session. There were about 20 people, as I recall, and they did a close reading of ATH.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">David Spiech</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Aug 1, 2018, 15:38 Edward C Appel <<a href="mailto:edwardcappel@frontier.com">edwardcappel@frontier.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4432"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4433">Burkophiles,<u></u><u></u></span></div><div id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4432"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><br></span></div><div id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4435"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4436"> Surfing
the net via Google, I somehow came across an article entitled, “’How
Delightfully Awful’: Reflections on Kenneth Burke’s ‘Linguistic Approach to
Problems of Education,’” by Andrew Hartman of, as I recall, Belmont University.
It’s a really good piece. Hartman summarizes well Burke’s chapter in that 1955
book on philosophy and education, and applies Burke’s insights to a 1950
critique of <i id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4437">Huckleberry Finn</i> by
Lionel Trilling. Hartman was blogging on a site, S-USIH.com, owned by the
Society for United States Intellectual History. I had never heard of this group before. Posting
on 6/3/15, Hartman alluded to a then-recent conference the society had had in
Indianapolis, in which discussion of Burke was a part. Most intriguing, Hartman
made reference to a “Burke Week” on the blog held shortly thereafter. He gave a
link to one of the papers, or blog posts, in that series.<u></u><u></u></span></div><div id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4435"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><br></span></div><div id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4439"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4440"> That
link brought up the introductory post to “Burke Week,” early November, 2014:
“Blogging Kenneth Burke’s <i id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4441">Attitudes
Toward History</i>: The Introductory Post,” by Ben Alpers, 11/10/14, another
well-taken probe. Alluding to all the brilliant passages in the tome he’d not
have time or space to quote, Alpers basically takes issue only with the title
of <i id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4442">ATH</i>. Alpers suggests three
alternatives:<u></u><u></u></span></div><div id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4439"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><br></span></div><div id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4444"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4445"> “Attitudes
Toward the Incessant Intermingling of Conservatism and Progress.”<u></u><u></u></span></div><div id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4444"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><br></span></div><div id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4447"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4448"> “Statements
of Policy on Problems of Organizational Behavior.”<u></u><u></u></span></div><div id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4447"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><br></span></div><div id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4450"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4451"> “Manual
of Terms for a Public Relations Council with Heart.”<u></u><u></u></span></div><div id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4450"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><br></span></div><div id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4453"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4454"> Alpers
praises the way Burke ties things all together in the six-page conclusion,
quirky arrangement of the book, or not.<u></u><u></u></span></div><div id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4453"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><br></span></div><div id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4456"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4457"> In a
post of reaction to that introductory blog, Paul Kern says look at <i id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4458">Attitudes</i> as a manual or introductory
guide to life, as indeed, “Equipment for Living.” Kern adds this warning as
addendum to the title: “REMEMBER: READ THE WHOLE MANUAL BEFORE USING THIS
PRODUCT. All the parts and pieces tend to overlap and inter-join,” culminating
with Burke’s bottom line, “By proper discounting, everything becomes usable.”<u></u><u></u></span></div><div id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4456"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><br></span></div><div id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4460"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4461"> The
four follow-up posts for “Burke Week” were:<u></u><u></u></span></div><div id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4460"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><br></span></div><div id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4463"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4464"> “Kenneth
Burke’s Frames of Acceptance.” By Andrew Hartman, 11/12/14.<u></u><u></u></span></div><div id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4463"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><br></span></div><div id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4466"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4467"> “Identifying
Burke,” by Bill Fine, 11/13/14.<u></u><u></u></span></div><div id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4466"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><br></span></div><div id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4469"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4470"> “Kenneth
Burke and Self-Help,” by Andy Seal, 11/14/14.<u></u><u></u></span></div><div id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4469"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><br></span></div><div id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4472"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4473"> “WWBD!
The Cash Value of Kenneth Burke as Historical Theorist,” by Tim Lacy, 11/15/14.</span></div><div id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4472"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%" id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4578">Indeed,
“What Would Burke Do?” We’ve all asked that question a time or two.</span></div><div id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4472"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%"><br></span></div><div id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4478"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4479"> Two
other posts I came across on the S-USIH site that touch on Burke:<u></u><u></u></span></div><div id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4478"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><br></span></div><div id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4481"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4482"> “A
Specter Is Haunting American Studies,” by Andrew Hartman, 4/8/14.<u></u><u></u></span></div><div id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4481"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><br></span></div><div id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4484"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4485"> “The
Going Concern: Marx and Burke on Human History,” by Andy Seal, 10/17/16.<u></u><u></u></span></div><div id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4484"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><br></span></div><div id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4487"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4488"> Burke
seems to be alive and well even in places some of us didn’t know about.<u></u><u></u></span></div><div id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4487"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><br></span></div><div id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4490"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4491"><u></u> <u></u></span></div><div id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4493"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4494"> Ed<u></u><u></u></span></div><div id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4496"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4497"> <u></u><u></u></span></div><div id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4499"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4500"> <u></u><u></u></span></div><div id="m_-2483322641481597431yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533151801267_4235">
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