ABSTRACT
Burke’s central perception [is] that the relation between self and culture is not instrumental but reciprocal. In his view we are in large measure constituted by the very culture it is our task to maintain and improve. Therefore, the kind of “ownership” that this text seeks to establish in its reader is not the mere claiming of title or the assertion of a right to possession, as of an object; rather, it is an engagement in a process by which both the individual and the culture are continually remade.
