Burke Kenneth. On Human Nature: A Gathering While Everything Flows, 1967-1984

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. — 389 р.Collected essays. On Human Nature: A Gathering While Everything Flows brings 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 Language as Symbolic Action, A Grammar of Motives, and Rhetoric of Motives, among 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, On Human Nature makes a significant statement about cultural linguistics and is an important rounding-out of the Burkean corpus.Creativity
On Stress, Its Seeking, 1967
On "Creativity"—A Partial Retraction, 1971
Towards Helhaven: Three Stages of a Vision, 1971
Why Satire, With a Plan for Writing One, 1974
Realisms, Occidental Style, 1982
Logology
Archetype and Entelechy, 1972
(Nonsymbolic) Motion/(Symbolic) Action, 1978
Theology and Logology, 1979
Symbolism as a Realistic Mode: "De-Psychoanalyzing" Logologized, 1979
Theory
A Theory of Terminology, 1967
Towards Looking Back, 1976
Variations on "Providence," 1981
K.B.
Eye-Crossing—From Brooklyn to Manhattan: An Eye-Poem for the Ear, 1973
Counter-Gridlock: An Interview with Kenneth Burke, 1980–81