{"product_id":"permanence-and-change-9780520041462","title":"Permanence and Change","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\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.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eThis 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\/div\u003e","brand":"Kenneth Burke","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48274880856315,"sku":"9780520041462","price":33.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/permanence-and-change-9780520041462","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}