Abstract

This study applies the strategic dialectical style of Kenneth Burke's own writing to an interpretation of meaning at critical junctures within his work. The author situates a theory of Existence within Burke's work, to generate an order within Burkean arguments surrounding these critical junctures. Pivotal issues, such as ontological emergence, its pentadic nature, freedom and necessity as will, normative grammar, the dialectic of action/motion, substance/motive, property/propriety, and ensistence/existence are elaborated through development of their dialectical characteristics in a manner which brings forth the possibilities of dramatism as a means of configuring the nature of being, through the various circumferences that are balanced as human beings act within the world