Sensible Thinking 3: The Adventure Continues - Softcover

Levinson, Martin H

Softcover

ISBN 10: 197016431X ISBN 13: 9781970164312

Publisher: Institute of General Semantics, 2025

Synopsis

Sensible Thinking 3: The Adventure Continues is a practical guide rooted in the principles of general semantics that provides tools to help one get effectively through the day. It offers GS techniques for clear thinking, emotional self-management, and analyses of social issues. Its approach is direct and accessible, making complex concepts understandable even to those unfamiliar with general semantics.

    The book is structured with standalone chapters, allowing readers to engage with them individually without having prior context. It provides cogent examples to explain abstract ideas such as orders of abstraction, mapping territories, and time-binding, and has chapters with reflections on historical events like particular eras of American disunity and the foundations of the Revolutionary War. There is also discussion of how Alfred Korzybski devised general semantics and a look at contemporary concerns such as post-traumatic stress disorder that incorporates no-nonsense strategies for its resolution. A coda presents a brief history of the Institute of General Semantics.

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About the Author

Martin H. Levinson, PhD, New York University, is a past president of the Institute of General Semantics, book editor for ETC: A Review of General Semantics, and a contributing editor to The Satirist, A Critical Online Journal. He is currently a faculty member with the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Stony Brook University, a teacher for the United Federation of Teachers' Si Beagle Learning Program, which is located in New York City, and a lecturer on topics of historical interest for schools and public libraries.

Edition details

• Publisher: Institute of General Semantics
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 197016431X
• ISBN 13: 9781970164312
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200