Korzybski a biography
Language: Italian
Published by Extensional Publishing, Pasadena, 2011
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"Che libro pazzesco!" disse Albert Einstein all'inizio degli anni '50, quando gli fu chiesto un parere sull'opera di Alfred Korzybski del 1933 "Scienza e sanità mentale". Più di un decennio dopo, Richard Feynman trovò la nozione di "vincolo temporale" di Korzybski cruciale per rispondere alla domanda "Che cos'è la scienza?". Feynman non sapeva che era stato Alfred Korzybski a coniare il termine "vincolo temporale" nel suo primo libro, "La virilità dell'umanità", del 1921, per definire quella che considerava la caratteristica distintiva degli esseri umani: il potenziale di ogni generazione di ripartire da dove la precedente si era fermata e quindi di accumulare conoscenze utili a un ritmo sempre più accelerato. Nelle scienze esatte e nella tecnologia, il vincolo temporale sembra funzionare abbastanza bene. Nel resto della vita umana, non altrettanto. Korzybski, un nobile polacco patriottico e ingegnere che aveva vissuto sotto la tirannia zarista e aveva visto gli orrori della Prima Guerra Mondiale sul fronte orientale prima di trasferirsi negli Stati Uniti, comprese le conseguenze della disparità tra il rapido ma limitato progresso scientifico-tecnologico e il più ampio ma lentissimo sviluppo etico-sociale: un ciclo apparentemente infinito di crisi, rivoluzioni e guerre.Attingendo a una vasta gamma di fonti, tra cui la corrispondenza personale di Korzybski, appunti, album di ritagli e scritti pubblicati e inediti, nonché a conversazioni e interviste con alcuni dei suoi più stretti collaboratori, Bruce I. Kodish colloca i contributi di Korzybski nel contesto della sua epoca e offre spunti sorprendenti sulla sua opera nel suo complesso. La prosa limpida di Kodish offre una narrazione avvincente e scorrevole della vita frenetica, a volte fin troppo frenetica, emozionante ed estenuante di Korzybski, rendendo al contempo accessibili alcuni degli aspetti più complessi del suo pensiero. Per gli anni a venire, questa straordinaria biografia rimarrà l'opera di riferimento sulla vita e l'opera straordinariamente avventurose e significative di Alfred Korzybski. In brossura. Pp. 692. Pari al nuovo. Copertina morbida/libro cartaceo.…
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- Title
- Korzybski a biography
- Author
- Kodish Bruce I.
- Publisher
- Extensional Publishing, Pasadena
- Publication year
- 2011
- Condition
- Come nuovo
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- Italian
- ISBN 10
- 0970066406
- ISBN 13
- 9780970066404
- Item weight
- 1,120 grams
Traces of Korzybski's pioneering work can be found today in a variety of fields such as cognitive science, cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy, communication, neuro-linguistic programming, media ecology, medicine, organizational development, philosophical counseling, semiotics, and philosophy, etc. In spite of this, Korzybski's radically interdisciplinary work remains mainly unassimilated into standard academic fields and hard to accurately fit into familiar popular categories. Thus, Korzybski remains a relatively neglected and misunderstood figure, shrouded in controversy: some people have considered him a genius while others have called him a crank. Drawing on an array of sources including Korzybski's personal correspondence, notes, scrapbooks, and both published and unpublished writings, as well as personal discussions and interviews with some of Korzybski's closest co-workers, Bruce I. Kodish situates Korzybski's contributions in the context of his time and provides surprising insights into his work as a whole. Kodish's clear prose provides a compellingly readable narrative of Korzybski's very busy, sometimes too busy, exciting and exhausting life while making accessible some of the most complex areas of Korzybski's thought. For years to come, this outstanding biography will remain the standard work on Alfred Korzybski's extraordinarily adventurous and significant life and work.
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