MLA Commons | Gregory Desilet | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/gdesilet/activity/ Activity feed for Gregory Desilet. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:30:07 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 a49ea18072d1fcebed540886f708b64a Gregory Desilet deposited Choosing a Rhetoric of the Enemy: Kenneth Burke's Comic Frame, Warrantable Outrage, and the Problem of Scapegoating https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1794290/ Wed, 14 Sep 2022 22:13:53 -0400 Kenneth Burke’s dramatistic theory of rhetoric presents a significant tension between an “Iron Law of History” and a “comic” attitude. Comic framing in ironic awareness of one’s own shortcomings in a conflict, as well as those of one’s opponent, moderates aggression but also appears to dissolve the ground for the identification and censure of wron…[Read more]

]]> 0 2102c6e23cd19cc6c1aed284d3f09d20 Gregory Desilet deposited Physics and language—science and rhetoric: Reviewing the parallel evolution of theory on motion and meaning in the aftermath of the Sokal Hoax https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1794288/ Wed, 14 Sep 2022 22:02:18 -0400 Alan Sokal’s concern about a decline in intellectual standards includes an indictment of what he calls current “subjectivist” trends accompanying a general erosion of “objectivity “ stemming from postmodern views such as deconstruction. This erosion is identified most importantly in postmodern claims about the instability of rigorous distinc…[Read more]

]]> 0 ddad50a9784b820bccb54c27ef2410ee Gregory Desilet deposited Heidegger and derrida: The conflict between hermeneutics and deconstruction in the context of rhetorical and communication theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1794285/ Wed, 14 Sep 2022 21:53:50 -0400 Jacques Derrida’s deconstructive analyses expose the sense in which hermeneutic strategies fall prey to the “metaphysical exigency”: an unargued and concealed choice significant to the exposition of a philosophical position. The roots of this choice come most fully to light in the context of Derrida’s differentiation of his views from those of Mar…[Read more]

]]> 0 a60b0f2d00bfb4678eac95697df18869 Gregory Desilet deposited Nietzsche contra Burke: The melodrama in dramatism https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1794133/ Tue, 13 Sep 2022 18:45:17 -0400 The works of Kenneth Burke and Friedrich Nietzsche find common ground in a similar understanding of the hortatory nature of language‐using. This similarity gives rise to a measure of dissonance when weighed against their radically differing conceptions of the negative—Burke employing a “sacrificial,” dialectical negative and Nietzsche a “discri…[Read more]

]]> 0 98ebc86643352b14a4caa51c9dd4da46 Gregory Desilet changed their profile picture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1794055/ Tue, 13 Sep 2022 03:28:04 -0400 0