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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. "That's a crazy book!" Albert Einstein said in the early 1950s, when asked his impression of Alfred Korzybski's 1933 work "Science and Sanity". More than a decade later, Richard Feynman found Korzybski's notion of "time-binding" crucial for answering the question "What is science?". Feynman didn't know that it was Alfred Korzybski who had coined the term "time-binding" in his first, 1921, book "Manhood of Humanity" to label what he considered the defining characteristic of humans: the potential of each generation to start where the former leaves off and thus to accumulate useful knowledge at an ever-accelerating rate. In the exact sciences and technology, time-binding seems to work reasonably well. In the rest of human life, not so much. Korzybski, a patriotic Polish nobleman and an engineer who had lived under Tsarist tyranny and had seen the horrors of World War I on the Eastern Front before coming to the United States, realized the results of the disparity between rapid but narrow scientific-technological advancement and broader but snail-paced ethical-social development: a seemingly endless cycle of crises, revolutions and wars.Seeking a way out, he studied a broad range of disciplines from physics to psychiatry-fields that others felt had little to do with each other-and discovered factors of sanity in physico-mathematical methods. Comparing the ways of thinking that scientists and mathematicians exemplify when working at their best and the ways of thinking that they and other people unsanely or insanely tend to use the rest of the time, Korzybski linked science and sanity in a new world outlook with an accompanying methodology (labeled 'general semantics')-simple enough to teach children. Traces of Korzybski's pioneering work can be found today in a variety of fields such as cognitive science, cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy, communication, media ecology, medicine, organizational development, philosophical counseling and philosophy, etc. In spite of this, Korzybski's radically interdisciplinary work remains relatively unassimilated into standard academic fields and hard to accurately fit into familiar popular categories.Thus, Korzybski, who originated the saying "The map is not the territory", 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 times 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. "That's a crazy book!" Albert Einstein said in the early 1950s, when asked his impression of Alfred Korzybski's 1933 work "Science and Sanity". More than a decade later, Richard Feynman found Korzybski's notion of "time-binding" crucial for answering the question "What is science?". Feynman didn't know that it was Alfred Korzybski who had coined the term "time-binding" in his first, 1921, book "Manhood of Humanity" to label what he considered the defining characteristic of humans: the potential of each generation to start where the former leaves off and thus to accumulate useful knowledge at an ever-accelerating rate. In the exact sciences and technology, time-binding seems to work reasonably well. In the rest of human Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

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Condition: Come nuovo. "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.…