The Hidden Dimension

Edward T. Hall

ISBN 10: 0370013085 / ISBN 13: 9780370013084

Published by The Bodley Head Ltd, 1969

About this Item

[Man's use of space in public and private] From the library of noted scholar Richard A. Macksey. Bound in publisher's red cloth. Gilt lettering. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Generally clean. Light spotting. xii, 201 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm. "Richard A. Macksey was a celebrated Johns Hopkins University professor whose affiliation with the university spanned six and a half decades. A legendary figure not only in his own fields of critical theory, comparative literature, and film studies but across all the humanities, Macksey possessed enormous intellectual capacity and a deeply insightful human nature. He was a man who read and wrote in six languages, was instrumental in launching a new era in structuralist thought in America, maintained a personal library containing a staggering collection of books and manuscripts, inspired generations of students to follow him to the thorniest heights of the human intellect, and penned or edited dozens of volumes of scholarly works, fiction, poetry, and translation." - Johns Hopkins University. Seller Inventory # 2006080054

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Hidden Dimension

Publisher: The Bodley Head Ltd

Publication Date: 1969

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis:

An examination of various cultural concepts of space and how differences among them affect modern society. Introducing the science of "proxemics, " Hall demonstrates how man's use of space can affect personal business relations, cross-cultural exchanges, architecture, city planning, and urban renewal.

About the Author:

Edward T. Hall was a widely traveled anthropologist whose fieldwork took him all over the world--from the Pueblo cultures of the American Southwest to Europe and the Middle East. As director of the State Department's Point Four Training Program in the 1950s, Dr. Hall's mission was to teach foreign-bound technicians and administrators how to communicate effectively across cultural boundaries. He was a consultant to architects on human factors in design and to business and government agencies in the field of intercultural relations, and had taught at the University of Denver, Bennington College, the Washington School of Psychiatry, the Harvard Business School, the Illinois Institute of Technology, and Northwestern University.
Dr. Hall was born in Webster Groves, Missouri. He received an A.B. degree from the University of Denver, and M.A. from the University of Arizona, and a Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University. He lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico, until his death in 2009.