Permanence And Change

Author : Kenneth Burke
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0520041445

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Permanence and Change by Kenneth Burke Pdf

Permanenceand 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."

Author : Kenneth Burke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258421518

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Permanence and Change by Kenneth Burke Pdf

Author : Kenneth Burke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Change
ISBN : UVA:X000377135

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Permanence & Change by Kenneth Burke Pdf

Author : Ann George
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781611179323

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Kenneth Burke's Permanence and Change by Ann George Pdf

A guide to and analysis of a seminal books key concepts and methodology Since its publication in 1935, Kenneth Burke's Permanence and Change, a text that can serve as an introduction to all his theories, has become a landmark of rhetorical theory. Using new archival sources and contextualizing Burke in the past and present, Ann George offers the first sustained exploration of this work and seeks to clarify the challenging book for both amateurs and scholars of rhetoric. This companion to Permanence and Change explains Burke's theories through analysis of key concepts and methodology, demonstrating how, for Burke, all language and therefore all culture is persuasive by nature. Positioning Burke's book as a pioneering volume of New Rhetoric, George presents it as an argument against systemic violence, positivism, and moral relativism. Permanence and Change has become the focus of much current rhetorical study, but George introduces Burke's previously unavailable outlines and notes, as well as four drafts of the volume, to investigate his work more deeply than ever before. Through further illumination of the book's development, publication, and reception, George reveals Burke as a public intellectual and critical educator, rather than the eccentric, aloof genius earlier scholars imagined him to be. George argues that Burke was not ahead of his time, but rather deeply engaged with societal issues of the era. She redefines Burke's mission as one of civic engagement, to convey the ethics and rhetorical practices necessary to build communities interested in democracy and human welfare—lessons that George argues are as needed today as they were in the 1930s.

Author : Frank Kermode
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Education
ISBN : 0674133986

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The Classic by Frank Kermode Pdf

Frank Kermode attempts to determine the criteria for classical literature through an analysis of the social and intellectual importance of great works of the past.

Author : Camila Maroja,Caroline Menezes,Fabrizio Poltroniere
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781443862882

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The Permanence of the Transient by Camila Maroja,Caroline Menezes,Fabrizio Poltroniere Pdf

How should one approach the notion of the precarious in art – its meanings and its outcomes? Its presence in artistic practices may be transient, yet it instigates permanent changes in the production, discourse, and perception of art. The Permanence of the Transient: Precariousness in Art gathers essays that examine the traces and implications of precariousness in contemporary art, and lays a foundation for a thoughtful study of its emergence in related fields throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. The different perspectives represented in this volume touch on art history and theory, curatorial practice, media art, philosophy, language, and transnational studies, and highlight artists’ narratives. Together, these interdisciplinary essays locate precariousness as an undercurrent in contemporary art and a connective tissue across diverse areas of knowledge and everyday life.

Author : Karl Schroeder
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2003-03-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429980395

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Permanence by Karl Schroeder Pdf

Young Rue Cassels of the Cycler Compact -- a civilization based around remote brown dwarf stars -- is running for her life from her bullying brother, Jentry, who has stolen her family inheritance and threatens to sell her into slavery. Fleeing in a shuttle spacecraft from the sparsely populated and austere comet-mining habitat she has lived in her whole life, she spots a distant, approaching object, and stakes a legal claim to it. It is not the valuable comet she hoped for but something even more wonderful, an abandoned Cycler starship. Since the discovery of a faster-than-light drive, unfortunately operable only between larger stars, the Cycler Compact civilization has gradually dwindled. It's much cheaper for the star-based civilizations of the new Rights Economy to bypass the stops that can't be made with the new technology, and the civilizations of the brown stars are gradually sinking into anarchy and chaos. It has been decades since the last Cycler ship passed anywhere near the system in which Rue grew up. Her discovery unleashes a fury of action, greed, and interstellar intrigue as many factions attempt to take advantage of the last great opportunity to revitalize-and perhaps control--the Compact. This is the story of Rue's quest to visit and claim this ship and its treasures, set against a background of warring empires, strange alien artifacts, and fantastic science. It is a story of hope and danger, of a strange and compelling religion, Permanence, unique to this star-faring age, and of the rebirth of life and belief in a place at the edge of forever. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : John Henneberry
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781119055655

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Transience and Permanence in Urban Development by John Henneberry Pdf

Temporary urban uses – innovative ways to transform cities or new means to old ends? The scale and variety of temporary – or meanwhile or interim – urban uses and spaces has grown rapidly in response to the dramatic increase in vacant and derelict land and buildings, particularly in post-industrial cities. To some, this indicates that a paradigm shift in city making is underway. To others, alternative urbanism is little more than a distraction that temporarily cloaks some of the negative outcomes of conventional urban development. However, rigorous, theoretically informed criticism of temporary uses has been limited. The book draws on international experience to address this shortcoming from the perspectives of the law, sociology, human geography, urban studies, planning and real estate. It considers how time – and the way that it is experienced – informs alternative perspectives on transience. It emphasises the importance, for analysis, of the structural position of a temporary use in an urban system in spatial, temporal and socio-cultural terms. It illustrates how this position is contingent upon circumstances. What may be deemed a helpful and acceptable use to established institutions in one context may be seen as a problematic, unacceptable use in another. What may be a challenging and fulfilling alternative use to its proponents may lose its allure if it becomes successful in conventional terms. Conceptualisations of temporary uses are, therefore, mutable and the use of fixed or insufficiently differentiated frames of reference within which to study them should be avoided. It then identifies the major challenges of transforming a temporary use into a long-term use. These include the demands of regulatory compliance, financial requirements, levels of expertise and so on. Finally, the potential impacts of policy on temporary uses, both inadvertent and intended, are considered. The first substantive, critical review of temporary urban uses, Transience and Permanence in Urban Development is essential reading for academics, policy makers, practitioners and students of cities worldwide.

Author : Raymond Boisvert
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780823283149

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Dewey's Metaphysics by Raymond Boisvert Pdf

This work challenges recent neo-pragmatist interpretations of Dewey as a historicist, radically anti-essential thinker. By tracing Dewey's views on the issues of change and permanence, Boisvert demonstrates the way Dewey was able to learn from important scientific discoveries.

Author : Alan Lightman
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780307908599

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The Accidental Universe by Alan Lightman Pdf

The bestselling author of Einsteins Dreams explores the emotional and philosophical questions raised by recent discoveries in science with passion and curiosity. He looks at the dialogue between science and religion; the conflict between our human desire for permanence and the impermanence of nature; the possibility that our universe is simply an accident; the manner in which modern technology has separated us from direct experience of the world; and our resistance to the view that our bodies and minds can be explained by scientific logic and laws. Behind all of these considerations is the suggestion--at once haunting and exhilarating--that what we see and understand of the world is only a tiny piece of the extraordinary, perhaps unfathomable whole.

Author : Samuel P. Hays,Barbara D. Hays
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1987-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521324281

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Beauty, Health, and Permanence by Samuel P. Hays,Barbara D. Hays Pdf

The impact of environmental issues on government is traced by exploring controversial policies and clarifying relationships between political institutions and changing social values in contemporary America.

Author : Paolo Gaibazzi
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782387800

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Bush Bound by Paolo Gaibazzi Pdf

Whereas most studies of migration focus on movement, this book examines the experience of staying put. It looks at young men living in a Soninke-speaking village in Gambia who, although eager to travel abroad for money and experience, settle as farmers, heads of families, businessmen, civic activists, or, alternatively, as unemployed, demoted youth. Those who stay do so not only because of financial and legal limitations, but also because of pressures to maintain family and social bases in the Gambia valley. ‘Stayers’ thus enable migrants to migrate, while ensuring the activities and values attached to rural life are passed on to the future generations.

Author : Kenneth Burke
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1968-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0520001966

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Counter-Statement by Kenneth Burke Pdf

A valuable feature of the second edition (1953) of Counter-Statement was the Curriculum Criticum in which the author placed the book in terms of his later work. For this new paperback edition, Mr. Burke continues his "curve of development" in an Addendum which surveys the course of his though in subsequent books (up to the publication of his Collected Poems, 1915 - 1967) and work-in-progress.

Author : Jakob Guanzon
Publisher : Dialogue Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0349702691

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Abundance by Jakob Guanzon Pdf

Author : Tim Chester
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433542770

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You Can Change by Tim Chester Pdf

It's about heart change, not behavior change. That's the conviction of Tim Chester as he seeks to help everyday Christians "connect the truth about God with our Monday-morning struggles." This interactive book, laid out in workbook fashion, is for newer Christians struggling with sin and for more mature Christians who have plateaued in their faith as they seek to find victory over sin in their lives. With a conviction that sanctification is God's work and the journey to holiness is joyful, Chester guides readers through a "change project"-beginning with the selection of one area of life they would like to modify. Each chapter includes a question (e.g., Why would you like to change? What truths do you need to turn to?) to guide readers as they deal with a specific sin or struggle, truths from God's word, and a reflection guide to help readers through their change project.