Permanence and Change

, by Burke, Kenneth

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ISBN: 9780520041462 | 0520041461
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 7/1/1984

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Introduction

xiii

Prologue

xlvii

PART I ON INTERPRETATION

Orientation

All Living Things Are Critics

(2)

Veblen's Concept of ``Trained Incapacity''

(2)

Training, Means-Selecting, and Escape

(2)

The Pavlov, Watson, and Gestalt Experiments in Meaning

(3)

The Scapegoat as an Error in Interpretation

(3)

Connection between Rationalization and Orientation

(2)

Motives

Motives Are Subdivisions in a Larger Frame of Meaning

(2)

The Pleasure Principle in Orientation

(2)

The Strategy of Motives

(2)

Further Consideration of Motive as Part of a Larger Whole

(4)

Motives Are Shorthand Terms for Situations

(8)

Occupational Psychosis

The Nature of Interest

(3)

Occupational Psychoses of the Present

(4)

The Technological Psychosis

(3)

Effects upon Literature

(1)

Occupational Psychosis as Trained Incapacity

(2)

Style

The Essence of Stylistic Appeal

(2)

Various Romantic Solutions

(3)

The Need for Definition

(4)

Magic, Religion, and Science

The Three Orders of Rationalization

(6)

A Humanistic, or Poetic, Rationalization

(6)

PART II PERSPECTIVE BY INCONGRUITY

The Range of Piety

Magical and Utilitarian Meanings

(3)

Piety As a System-builder

(6)

New Meanings

The Factor of Impiety in Evangelism

(2)

Necessitous and Symbolic Labor

(2)

Reservations Concerning Logic

(1)

Piety-impiety Conflict in Nietzsche

(4)

Perspective As Metaphor

Illustrations of Perspective by Incongruity

(3)

Planned Incongruity in Bergson

(2)

The Function of Metaphor

(3)

Argument By Analogy

Analogy and Proof

(3)

Tests of Success

100

(2)

Classification Dictated by Interest

102

(1)

Interrelation of Analogy, Metaphor, Abstraction, Classification, Interest, Expectancy, and Intention

103

(4)

The Search for Analogous Processes

107

(4)

An Incongruous Assortment of Incongruities

111

(14)

Secular Conversions

The Fundamentals of Psychoanalysis

125

(4)

McDougall's Modifications of Freudianism

129

(4)

Exorcism by Misnomer

133

(3)

Examination of a Case Described by Rivers

136

(6)

Conversion and the Lex Continui

142

(6)

Meaning and Regression

Pure, or Unmixed, Responses

148

(7)

Conversion and Regression in Religion

155

(4)

Conclusion

A Historical Parallel

159

(3)

Towards a Philosophy of Being

162

(7)

PART III THE BASIS OF SIMPLIFICATION

Causality and Communication

Major Shifts in Perspective

169

(3)

The Rock of Certainty

172

(3)

Two Aspects of Speech

175

(4)

Permanence and Change

Modern Parallels to Ancient Thought

179

(9)

Secular Mysticism in Bentham

Bentham's ``Table of the Springs of Action''

188

(7)

The Ethical Confusion

Recommending by Tragedy

195

(2)

The Peace-war Conflict

197

(2)

Critique of Veblen's Solution

199

(2)

Egoistic-altruistic Merger

201

(3)

Ethicizing of the Means of Support

204

(3)

Variants of the Ethicizing Tendency

207

(6)

The ``Pathetic Fallacy''

213

(3)

The Search for Motives

Magical and Scientific Interpretation

216

(2)

Statistical Motives

218

(2)

Where Scientists and Mystics Meet

220

(4)

The Basis of Reference

224

(6)

The Part and the Whole

230

(2)

Outlines of a ``Metabiology''

232

(5)

Occupation and Preoccupation

Extending the Concept of Occupation

237

(4)

Ambivalence of Weakness and Prowess

241

(6)

The Poetry of Action

The Mystic's Sterilization of Combat

247

(3)

In Qualified Defense of Lawrence

250

(5)

Recalcitrance

255

(7)

Conclusions

262

(12)

Appendix On Human Behavior, Considered ``Dramatistically''

274

(21)

Afterword Permanence and Change: In Retrospective Prospect

295

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