Title: Attitudes toward history /
Authors: Burke, Kenneth,
Date: 1984
Publisher: University of California Press,
Physical description: 434 pages ; 21 cm
Language: English
LC classification: D
Contents: Pt. 1: Acceptance and rejection -- Chapter 1: William James, Whitman, and Emerson -- Chapter 2: Poetic categories -- Chapter 3: The destiny of acceptable frames -- Chapter 4: Conclusion. Pt. 2: The curve of history -- Chapter 1: Christian Evangelism -- Chapter 2: Mediaeval synthesis -- Chapter 3: Protestant transition -- Chapter 4: Naïve capitalism -- Chapter 5: Emergent collectivism -- Chapter 6: Comic correctives -- Pt. 3: Analysis of symbolic structure -- Chapter 1: General nature of ritual -- Chapter 2: Dictionary of pivotal terms -- Conclusion -- Afterword to the Second edition -- Appendix: The seven offices -- Afterword: Attitudes toward history: In retrospective prospect.
Subject headings (LCSH): History--Philosophy.