Kenneth Burke - Permanence and Change: An Anatomy of Purpose, Third edition, With new Afterword.

by
KENNETH BURKE

Sharp-cut scientific classifications are essential for scientific method, but they are dangerous for philosophy. Such classification hides the truth that the different modes of natural existence shade off into each other.

ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD

1935
NEW REPUBLIC, INC.
NEW YORK

COPYRIGHT, 1935
NEW REPUBLIC, INC.

To my Mother and Father

A somewhat altered version of the section "On Interpretation" was published in The Plowshare: A Literary Periodical of One-Man Exhibits, in the issue of February 1934.

For this present work, my debts to the writings of other men are more numerous than I could hope to acknowledge. But in particular I should mention " The Meaning of Meaning," by C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards, with its supplements by Crookshank and Malinowski, and its fertile appendices.

I also wish to acknowledge the kindness of several publishers who have permitted me to quote at some length from works published by them. My thanks are due to W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., for permission to quote from I. A. Richards' "Science and Poetry"; to Longmans, Green and Company, for permission to quote from Johan Huizinga's "The Waning of the Middle Ages"; to Covici, Friede, Inc., for permission to quote from John Strachey 's "The Coming Struggle for Power"; to Columbia University Press, for permission to reprint part of a letter from Charles Warren Everett's "The Education of Jeremy Bentham"; to Mr. Edwin Seaver, for permission to quote from his novel, " The Company," published by The Macmillan Company; and to Harcourt, Brace and Company for permission to quote from I. A. Richards' "Mencius on the M'ind," William Marston's "Integrative Psychology," Karin Stephen's "The Misuse of Mind," C. K. Ogden 's "Bentham's Theory of Fictions," E. R. Jaensch 's "Eidetic Imagery," and William Loftus Hare 's "Mysticism of East and West."