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Antithetical Ethics: Kenneth Burke and the Constitution.
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Anderson, Virginia – JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory, 1995
Shows how the textuality of the United States Constitution, the most venerable of classic democratic icons, might be exploited to nurture postmodern ethics. Shows how Kenneth Burke's reading of the Constitution accords with and augments the postmodern theories of J.-F. Lyotard and S. Jarratt. Discusses a postmodern Constitution and the…
Descriptors: Ethics, Higher Education, Postmodernism, Writing (Composition)