Attitudes Toward History, Third Edition: With a New AfterwordUniversity of California Press, 05.06.1984 - 434 Seiten This book marks Kenneth Burke’s breakthrough in criticism from the literary and aesthetic into social theory and the philosophy of history. In this volume we find Burke’s first entry into what he calls his theory of Dramatism; and here also is an important section on the nature of ritual. |
Inhalt
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| 34 | |
THE DESTINY OF ACCEPTANCE FRAMES | 92 |
CONCLUSION | 106 |
MEDIAEVAL SYNTHESIS | 124 |
PROTESTANT TRANSITION | 135 |
NAIVE CAPITALISM | 142 |
EMERGENT COLLECTIVISM | 159 |
COMIC CORRECTIVES | 166 |
GENERAL NATURE OF RITUAL | 179 |
DICTIONARY OF PIVOTAL TERMS | 216 |
CONCLUSION | 339 |
AFTERWORD TO SECOND EDITION | 345 |
THE SEVEN OFFICES | 353 |
ATTITUDES TOWARD HISTORY | 377 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
abstract action alienation Aristotle attitude becomes bourgeois bureaucratization capitalist casuistic stretching casuistry church Clara Zetkin class struggle co-ordinates comedy comic frame concept connotations corporate corporate identity critical cues cultural debunking developed dispossessed doctrine economic efficiency emphasis enterprise essence esthetic Fascist feel feudal forensic frame of acceptance function Hence Hesiod human I. A. Richards ideal identify identity imagery imaginative implicit individual ingredient insofar instance investment involved Kenneth Burke kind logic Logological magic Malthusian limits Marx Marxist material matter ment metaphor mimetic mode moral motives nature neo-Malthusian organized pattern perspective by incongruity philosophy Plato poet political possible principle Protestantism psychological purely rational rejection relationships ritual role secular prayer sense shift situation social Sociological Imagination spiritual stress structure symbols of authority things thought tion tragedy tragic transcendence transvaluation of values variant vocabulary whereby words writer
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 309 - O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities: For nought so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give...
Seite 278 - I'd have you do it ever: when you sing, I'd have you buy and sell so; so give alms; Pray so ; and for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that; move still, still so, and own No other function.
Seite 11 - Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion ; during which the matter passes from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity ; and during •which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.
Seite 15 - Forever alive, forever forward, Stately, solemn, sad, withdrawn, baffled, mad, turbulent, feeble, dissatisfied, Desperate, proud, fond, sick, accepted by men, rejected by men, They go! they go! I know that they go, but I know not where they go, But I know that they go toward the best — toward something great.
Seite 19 - Neither can it be said, on the other hand, that the gain of rectitude must be bought by any loss. There is no penalty to virtue; no penalty to wisdom; they are proper additions of being. In a virtuous action I properly am; in a virtuous act I add to the world; I plant into deserts conquered from Chaos and Nothing and see the darkness receding on the limits of the horizon.
Seite 87 - So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Seite 41 - The progress of humane enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken. When you add that people are necessarily mistaken, that all people are exposed to situations in which they must act as fools, that every insight contains its own special kind of blindness, you complete the comic circle, returning again to the lesson of humility that underlies great tragedy.
Seite 16 - Now understand me well — it is provided in the essence of things that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary.
Seite 87 - Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas, your sorrow, is not dead, 166 Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor; So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore...
Seite 18 - All things are double, one against another. - Tit for tat; an eye for an eye; a tooth for a tooth; blood for blood; measure for measure; love for love. - Give and it shall be given you. - He that watereth shall be watered himself. - What will you have? quoth God; pay for it and take it.