{"product_id":"permanence-and-change-an-anatomy-of-purpose-third-edition-9780520041462","title":"Permanence and Change: An Anatomy of Purpose, Third Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Kenneth Burke\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: History \u0026amp; Surveys - Modern\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePermanence and Change\u003c\/i\u003e was written and first published in the depths of the Great Depression. \u003ci\u003eAttitudes Toward History\u003c\/i\u003e followed it two years later. These were revolutionary texts in the theory of communication, and, as classics, they retain their surcharge of energy. \u003ci\u003ePermanence and Change\u003c\/i\u003e treats human communication in terms of ideal cooperation, whereas \u003ci\u003eAttitudes Towards History\u003c\/i\u003e characterizes tactics and patterns of conflict typical of actual human associations. It is in \u003ci\u003ePermanence and Change\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003ePermanence and Change\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47592116879511,"sku":"9780520041462","price":3274.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780520041462.webp?v=1774976257","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/permanence-and-change-an-anatomy-of-purpose-third-edition-9780520041462","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}