ENG205H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Mein Kampf, Human Frailty, Alternative Medicine
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Germany was vulnerable after wwi, therefore susceptible to the. Full of imagery of diease, contamination, etc. Allopathic strategy of cure (treatment of disease by conventional means) Jewish agent is evil --- only cure is the super agent a. k. a. Burke looks at sexual symbolism of mein kampf (before the. Nuremburg rallies extravagant mass media appeals. Projection device hand over one"s ills" to a scapegoat; Symbolic rebirth convert to nazism to be re-born. Commercial use non-economic interpretation; jews are inborn dignity racism, aryans have built-in superiority. Aryans are purified by projecting their illnesses over to the jews. Hitler responsible for all economic issues germany undergoes there is such a thing as jewish finance . People in their human frailty require an enemy. Corrupters of religion are the major menaces to the world today this system of belief offers: a coherent worldview; they are. Burke aims to show how imagery, rhetoric, etc. sustain each other. Hitler himself living incarnation of aryan blood, power.
