{"id":2621,"date":"2020-03-11T13:08:23","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T13:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/?page_id=2621"},"modified":"2020-03-11T13:08:24","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T13:08:24","slug":"burke-exercise","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/courses\/rhe-330e-pathos\/197-2\/burke-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"Burke Exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In groups of 3-4, respond to the following: <\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Burke himself makes several pathetic appeals in this piece. Identify a passage or two where Burke uses charged language, for example, in this rhetorical analysis.<\/li>\n
  2. Why does Burke say\u00a0Mein Kampf <\/em>cannot be simply dismissed as \u201cirrational\u201d even if it seems to us quite nuts? (p. 198-99)<\/li>\n
  3. Like Brennan and Ahmed, Burke is describing a boundary-producing (or surfacing) process that consolidates an \u201cus\u201d and a \u201cthem.\u201d Burke attends specifically to the psychic<\/em> processes of surfacing: identification (\u201cus\u201d) and othering\/scapegoating (\u201cthem\u201d). Describe how Burke says Hitler goes about unifying an Aryan \u201cus\u201d and a Jewish \u201cthem.\u201d What are some of the rhetorical moves Hitler makes that inspire such passionate unification of the loved<\/em> and of the hated<\/em>? Point us to passages in the text to support your responses. While you\u2019re at it, be on the look out for evidence of \u201cmetonymic slides\u201d and the \u201cprojection device\u201d called scapegoating.<\/li>\n
  4. Brennan\u2019s hope is that if we can learn to discern the negative emotions we pick up from others, we\u2019ll be able to detach from them and reconnect with the life forces of joy, love, and hope (and so stop getting sick from stress related diseases). Ahmed\u2019s hope is that if we can learn to discern the ways that affective intensities stick bodies and signs together, establishing passionate us\/them dichotomies, we might be able to intervene in ways that unstick them. What is Burke\u2019s hope?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    In groups of 3-4, respond to the following: \u00a0 Burke himself makes several pathetic appeals in this piece. Identify a passage or two where Burke uses charged language, for example, in this rhetorical analysis. Why does Burke say\u00a0Mein Kampf cannot be simply dismissed as \u201cirrational\u201d even if it seems to us quite nuts? (p. 198-99) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":0,"parent":197,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2621","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2622,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2621\/revisions\/2622"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}