Some of you may note the allusion in the title of this post, Korzybski and I, to the play and movie, the King and I. The similarity extends beyond both forms of special K, as you can see:
Of course, Alfred Korzybski passed away before I was born, so I had no chance to know the man, but I know his work, and have been influenced by his writings and ideas, most notably his general semantics. And as some of you may know, I served as Executive Director of the Institute of General Semantics for 3 years, from 2008 to 2011.
So, this past December, I was invited to join the Board of Trustees of the IGS, and accepted. And it occurs to me that I never got around to adding a post about the anthology I co-edited with Corey Anton, who is presently Vice-President of the IGS. The volume, entitled Korzybski And..., was published in 2012 by the IGS, so this is more than a little overdue.
You may have noticed the Amazon order links for the book over on the left, though, and here they are again:
But no doubt you'd like a little more information about what's in the book, and that's perfectly understandable, so here are the contents:
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Situating Alfred Korzybski
Corey Anton and Lance Strate
Chapter 2: Korzybski and Gottfried Leibniz
Bruce I. Kodish
Chapter 3: Korzybski and Friedrich Nietzsche
Zhenbin Sun
Chapter 4: Korzybski and Charles Sanders Peirce
Isaac E. Catt
Chapter 5: Korzybski and Martin Heidegger
Corey Anton
Chapter 6: Korzybski and French Structuralism
Jean-Yves Heurtebise
Chapter 7: Korzybski and Stuart Chase
William Henry Sharp
Chapter 8: Korzybski and S. I. Hayakawa
William Henry Sharp
Chapter 9: Korzybski and Albert Ellis
Martin H. Levinson
Chapter 10: Korzybski and New Trends in Psychotherapy
Ramiro J. Álvarez
Chpater 11: Korzybski and Marshall McLuhan
Lance Strate
Chapter 12: Korzybski and Cultural Studies
Geraldine E. Forsberg
Chapter 13: Korzybski and New Visual Language
John S. Caputo, Robin Wynyard & Heather M. Crandall
Chapter 14: Korzybski and Cartography
Bini B.S.
Chapter 15: Korzybski and Cyberculture
Thierry Bardini
Chapter 16: Korzybski and...
Deborah Eicher-Catt
Index
About the Authors
It's an interesting and diverse group of essays, one that leaves lots of room for follow-up at some point in the future. And herein ends my little exercise in what Korzybski referred to as time-binding.
Alfred Korzybski |
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Of course, Alfred Korzybski passed away before I was born, so I had no chance to know the man, but I know his work, and have been influenced by his writings and ideas, most notably his general semantics. And as some of you may know, I served as Executive Director of the Institute of General Semantics for 3 years, from 2008 to 2011.
So, this past December, I was invited to join the Board of Trustees of the IGS, and accepted. And it occurs to me that I never got around to adding a post about the anthology I co-edited with Corey Anton, who is presently Vice-President of the IGS. The volume, entitled Korzybski And..., was published in 2012 by the IGS, so this is more than a little overdue.
You may have noticed the Amazon order links for the book over on the left, though, and here they are again:
But no doubt you'd like a little more information about what's in the book, and that's perfectly understandable, so here are the contents:
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Situating Alfred Korzybski
Corey Anton and Lance Strate
Chapter 2: Korzybski and Gottfried Leibniz
Bruce I. Kodish
Chapter 3: Korzybski and Friedrich Nietzsche
Zhenbin Sun
Chapter 4: Korzybski and Charles Sanders Peirce
Isaac E. Catt
Chapter 5: Korzybski and Martin Heidegger
Corey Anton
Chapter 6: Korzybski and French Structuralism
Jean-Yves Heurtebise
Chapter 7: Korzybski and Stuart Chase
William Henry Sharp
Chapter 8: Korzybski and S. I. Hayakawa
William Henry Sharp
Chapter 9: Korzybski and Albert Ellis
Martin H. Levinson
Chapter 10: Korzybski and New Trends in Psychotherapy
Ramiro J. Álvarez
Chpater 11: Korzybski and Marshall McLuhan
Lance Strate
Chapter 12: Korzybski and Cultural Studies
Geraldine E. Forsberg
Chapter 13: Korzybski and New Visual Language
John S. Caputo, Robin Wynyard & Heather M. Crandall
Chapter 14: Korzybski and Cartography
Bini B.S.
Chapter 15: Korzybski and Cyberculture
Thierry Bardini
Chapter 16: Korzybski and...
Deborah Eicher-Catt
Index
About the Authors
It's an interesting and diverse group of essays, one that leaves lots of room for follow-up at some point in the future. And herein ends my little exercise in what Korzybski referred to as time-binding.
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