Resumen de Solzhenitsyn on detente: a study of perspective by incongruity
Kenneth Burke's concept of “perspective by incongruity” names a strategy for transcending an unsatisfactory situation. Two speeches delivered by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in the United States during 1975 illustrate the use of the strategy to discount the Soviet‐American diplomacy of detente. After debunking Marxist ideology and capitalist concessions to communist nations, he posited an absolute moral order as the ground for a genuine detente
