Biesecker reveals the full range of Kenneth Burke's contribution to the possibility of social change.

In "Addressing Postmodernity," Barbara Biesecker examines the relationship between rhetoric and social change and the ways human beings transform social relations through the purposeful use of symbols. In discerning the conditions of possibility for social transformation and the role of human beings and rhetoric in it, Biesecker turns to the seminal work of Kenneth Burke.
Through a close reading of Burke's major works, "A Grammar of Motives," "A Rhetoric of Motives," and "The...