Permanence and Change

An Anatomy of Purpose, Third edition

AvKenneth Burke

Häftad, Engelska, 1984

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Permanence and Change was written and first published in the depths of the Great Depression. Attitudes Toward History followed it two years later. These were revolutionary texts in the theory of communication, and, as classics, they retain their surcharge of energy. Permanence and Change treats human communication in terms of ideal cooperation, whereas Attitudes Towards History characterizes tactics and patterns of conflict typical of actual human associations. It is in Permanence and Change that Burke establishes in path-breaking fashion that form permeates society just as it does poetry and the arts. Hence, his master idea that forms of art are not exclusively aesthetic: the cycles of a storm, the gradations of a sunrise, the stages of an epidemic, the undoing of Prince Hamlet are all instances of progressive form. This new edition of Permanence and Change reprints Hugh Dalziel Duncan's long sociological introduction and includes a substantial new afterward in which Burke reexamines his early ideas in light of subsequent developments in his own thinking and in social theory.

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Utgivningsdatum:1984-05-23
Mått:136 x 202 x 20 mm
Vikt:440 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:396
Upplaga:3
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520041462

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Kenneth Burke has been termed "simply the finest literary critic in the world, and perhaps the finest since Coleridge" (Stanley Edgar Hyman, The New Leader). Mr. Burke has published ten other works with the University of California Press: Towards a Better Life (1966); Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method (1966) Collected Poems, 1915-1967 (1968); The Complete White Oxen: Collected Short Fiction of Kenneth Burke (1968); A Grammar of Motives (1969); Permanence and Change: An Anatomy of Purpose (1984); The Philosophy of Literary Form (1974); A Rhetoric of Motives (1969); The Rhetoric of Religion: Studies in Logology (1970); and Attitudes Toward History, Third Edition (1984).

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INTRODUCTIONPROLOGUEPART ION INTERPRETATIONCHAPTER I: ORIENTATIONAll Living Things Are CriticsVeblen's Concept of "Trained Incapacity"Training, Means-Selecting, and EscapeThe Pavlov, Watson, and Gestalt Experiments in MeaningThe Scapegoat as an Error in InterpretationConnection between Rationalization and OrientationCHAPTER II: MOTIVESMotives Are Subdivisions in a Larger Frame of MeaningThe Pleasure Principle in OrientationThe Strategy of MotivesFurther Consideration of Motive as Part of a Larger WholeMotives Are Shorthand Terms for SituationsCHAPTER III: OCCUPATIONAL PSYCHOSISThe Nature of InterestOccupational Psychoses of the PresentThe Technological PsychosisEffects upon LiteratureOccupational Psychosis as Trained IncapacityCHAPTER IV: STYLEThe Essence of Stylistic AppealVarious Romantic SolutionsThe Need for DefinitionCHAPTER V: MAGIC, RELIGION, AND SCIENCEThe Three Orders of RationalizationA Humanistic, or Poetic, RationalizationPART IIPERSPECTIVE BY INCONGRUITYCHAPTER I: THE RANGE OF PIETYMagical and Utilitarian MeaningsPiety As a System-builderCHAPTER II: NEW MEANINGSThe Factor of Impiety in EvangelismNecessitous and Symbolic LaborReservations Concerning LogicPiety-impiety Conflict in NietzscheCHAPTER III: PERSPECTIVE AS METAPHORIllustrations of Perspective by IncongruityPlanned Incongruity in BergsonThe Function of MetaphorCHAPTER IV: ARGUMENT BY ANALOGYAnalogy and ProofTests of SuccessClassification Dictated by InterestInterrelation of Analogy, Metaphor, Abstraction,Classification, Interest, Expectancy, and IntentionThe Search for Analogous ProcessesAn Incongruous Assortment of IncongruitiesCHAPTER V: SECULAR CONVERSIONSThe Fundamentals of PsychoanalysisMcDougall's Modifications of FreudianismExorcism by MisnomerExamination of a Case Described by RiversConversion and the Lex ContinuiCHAPTER VI: MEANING AND REGRESSIONPure, or Unmixed, ResponsesConversion and Regression in ReligionCONCLUSIONA Historical ParallelTowards a Philosophy of BeingPART IIITHE BASIS OF SIMPLIFICATIONCHAPTER I: CAUSALITY AND COMMUNICATIONMajor Shifts in PerspectiveThe Rock of CertaintyTwo Aspects of SpeechCHAPTER II: PERMANENCE AND CHANGEModern Parallels to Ancient ThoughtCHAPTER III: SECULAR MYSTICISM IN BENTHAMBentham's "Table of the Springs of Action"CHAPTER IV: THE ETHICAL CONFUSIONRecommending by TragedyThe Peace-war ConflictCritique of Veblen's SolutionEgoistic-altruistic MergerEthicizing of the Means of SupportVariants of the Ethicizing TendencyThe "Pathetic Fallacy"CHAPTER V: THE SEARCH FOR MOTIVESMagical and Scientific InterpretationStatistical MotivesWhere Scientists and Mystics MeetThe Basis of ReferenceThe Part and the WholeOutlines of a "Metabiology"CHAPTER VI: OCCUPATION AND PREOCCUPATIONExtending the Concept of OccupationAmbivalence of Weakness and ProwessCHAPTER VII: THE POETRY OF ACTIONThe Mystic's Sterilization of CombatIn Qualified Defense of LawrenceRecalcitranceCONCLUSIONSAPPENDIXOn Human Behavior, Considered "Dramatistically"AFTERWORDPermanence and Change: In RetrospectiveProspect