Chris Mays is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Nathaniel A. Rivers is Associate Professor of English at Saint Louis University and coeditor of Thinking with Bruno Latour in Rhetoric and Composition and Literature as Equipment for Living: The Literary Reviews of Kenneth Burke.
Kellie Sharp-Hoskins is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric at New Mexico State University.
“Persuasively, often surprisingly, this volume transforms Burke to
show how his rhetorical project responds to our post/humanist
condition.”—Rhetoric Review
“This one-of-a-kind collection indicates that there is much to be
gained by articulating the work of Kenneth Burke to contemporary
debates regarding the posthuman. The received wisdom that Burke is
a dyed-in-the-wool humanist, and thus antithetical to posthumanism,
is challenged by this strong set of chapters by emerging and
well-established scholars. In short, this is not a surface-level
engagement but a very serious attempt to rethink both Burke’s
concepts and posthumanism through this unexpected encounter.”—Bryan
Crable, author of Ralph Ellison and Kenneth Burke: At the Roots of
the Racial Divide
“This star-studded collection argues that Kenneth Burke offers a
set of flexible tools to help bring into better focus the very idea
of posthumanism for scholars in rhetoric. The advantage of this
comparative, cross-prodding approach is that it pulls forward a
different set of works and concepts from Burke’s oeuvre (e.g.,
Helhaven, predestination, ‘counter-nature,’ dystopia) than the ones
that might otherwise spring to mind, and as such it takes readers
deeper into Burke while offering a compelling account of
posthumanism’s futures.”—Debra Hawhee, author of Moving Bodies:
Kenneth Burke at the Edges of Language
“Kenneth Burke continues to be regarded as a foundational figure
for the modern discipline of rhetoric, even though a major
reconsideration of his humanism has never really been advanced.
Kenneth Burke + The Posthuman changes that. Leading scholars in
rhetoric and composition mine Burke’s extensive archive for the
authors and concepts that were always on the margins of a
traditional humanist reading of Burke even as they informed much of
Burke’s thinking. This collection is poised to be a vital
touchstone for turning Burke toward the twenty-first century and
continuing his role as a leading thinker of all things
rhetorical.”—Byron Hawk, author of A Counter-History of
Composition: Toward Methodologies of Complexity
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