{"product_id":"on-human-nature-9780520923065","title":"On Human Nature","description":"\u003ci\u003eOn Human Nature: A Gathering While Everything Flows \u003c\/i\u003ebrings together the late essays, autobiographical reflections, an interview, and a poem by the eminent literary theorist and cultural critic Kenneth Burke (1897-1993). Burke, author of \u003ci\u003eLanguage as Symbolic Action, A Grammar of Motives, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eRhetoric of Motives, \u003c\/i\u003eamong other works, was an innovative and original thinker who worked at the intersection of sociology, psychology, literary theory, and semiotics. This book, a selection of fourteen representative pieces of his productive later years, addresses many important themes Burke tackled throughout his career such as logology (his attempt to find a universal language theory and methodology), technology, and ecology. The essays also elaborate Burke's notions about creativity and its relation to stress, language and its literary uses, the relation of mind and body, and more. Provocative, idiosyncratic, and erudite, \u003ci\u003eOn Human Nature \u003c\/i\u003emakes a significant statement about cultural linguistics and is an important rounding-out of the Burkean corpus.","brand":"Kenneth Burke","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48200258027771,"sku":"9780520923065","price":85.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_23a975e0-6cea-4ba5-ab34-4b0a02645a79.jpg?v=1770693759","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/on-human-nature-9780520923065","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}