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Author Burke, Kenneth, 1897-1993.

Title Permanence and change : an anatomy of purpose / Kenneth Burke.

Imprint Berkeley : University of California Press, [1984], c1954.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  191 B917p 1984    ---  Available
Edition 3rd ed., with a new afterword.
Description lix, 336 p. ; 21 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents On interpretation. Orientation ; Motives ; Occupational psychosis ; Style ; Magic, religion, and science -- Perspective by incongruity. The range of piety ; New meanings ; Perspective as metaphor ; Argument by analogy ; Secular conversions ; Meaning and regression -- The basis of simplification. Causality and communication ; Permanence and change ; Secular mysticism in Bentham ; The ethical confusion ; The search for motives ; Occupation and preoccupation ; The poetry of action.
Subject Ethics, Evolutionary.
Motivation (Psychology)
Change.
ISBN 9780520041462 (pbk.)
0520041461 (pbk.)
9780520041448
0520041445

 
    
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