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Developing Sanity in Human Affairs
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Susan Presby Kodish, Robert P. Holston
Prepared under the auspices of Hofstra University
Book Code: GM0613
ISBN: 0-313-30613-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-30613-6
456 pages, figures
Greenwood Press
Publication: 12/30/1998
List Price: $131.95 (UK Sterling Price: £75.00)
Availability: Out of stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: General semantics, developed by Alfred Korzybski, is concerned with how humans can learn to evaluate and act more responsibly in conducting their individual and social lives. The chapters in this collection deal with these issues in education and counseling, social and cultural areas, critical thinking, communications, humanism, and ethics. Highlights include the Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture, which bridges past and present work in general semantics and applications to important current problems in media and other areas of communication. Traditional and revisionist perspectives on foundations in general semantics are presented, as are dialogues on critical thinking and general semantics.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction by Susan Presby Kodish
  • Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture
  • Overview by Susan Presby Kodish
  • General Semantics: The Next Generation by Nicholas Johnson
  • Critical Thinking
  • Overview by Rachel Lauer
  • Thinking Critically about Sources of Information by Robert J. Swartz
  • Integrating Critical Thinking and General Semantics: An Interactive Panel
  • Foundations
  • Overview by Stuart A. Mayper
  • Living in an "as if" World: Some Reflections on "The Map Is Not the Territory" by Charlotte Schuchardt Read
  • The Most "Consequential" Elementalism by Edward MacNeal
  • General Semantics and Fuzzy Logic/Sets: Similarities and Differences by Robert P. Pula
  • How General Semantics Can Rescue Biology from Itself: A Biology with Biologists in It by C. Andrew Hilgartner
  • General-Semantics: A Critical and Meta-Critical System by Milton Dawes
  • Undecidability in Quantum Physics, Chaos Theory, and Deconstruction: Implications for Politics, Ethics, and Society by Roben Torosyan
  • EEOS: A Fourth Non-Aristotelian Model by D. David Bourland, Jr.
  • Social/Cultural Issues
  • Overview by Milton Dawes
  • A General Semantics Approach to Appreciating Cultural Diversity by Gregg Hoffmann
  • A North-South Bridge of General Semantics: The Cross-Cultural Approach in an International and a National Environment by Laura Bertone
  • How General Semantics Contributes to the Understanding of Violence by Rachel Lauer
  • Breaking the Taboo: A Critical Look at Barriers to Thought and Discussion of Assisted Suicide for the Terminally Ill by Lee Mazmanian
  • Healing Medicine with Language by Joseph F. Fennelly
  • The Importance of Story-Telling to Time-Binding: Crucial Issues for General Semantics to Address by Martha A. Bartter, C. Andrew Hilgartner, and Martin L. Stoneman
  • Problem Solving with General Semantics by David Hewson
  • Education/Counseling
  • Overview by Martin H. Levinson
  • A General Semantics Approach to Clinical Supervision with Drug Prevention Counselors by Martin H. Levinson
  • The Irving J. Lee Method of Teaching General Semantics by Sanford I. Berman
  • "Got-to-Be, Got-to-Be, Dom-in-o's!": The Semantics of Student Responses to TV Commercials by Roy F. Fox
  • An Integrated Model of Alfred Korzybski's General Semantics, Bandler/Grinder's Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Ellis's Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, and Glasser's Reality Therapy/Control Theory by Michael Hall
  • Professor A and Professor B: Illustrating Concepts in the General Semantics Course by Charles B. Dodson
  • Dream Education and General Semantics by Allen Flagg
  • General Semantics and Zen: Complementary Guides for Sane Living by S. W. Holmes
  • Communication
  • Overview by Gregg Hoffmann
  • Using General Semantics as the Theoretical Foundation for Teaching Media Literacy by Terese Brecklin and Gregg Hoffmann
  • Caveat Lector: "Let the Reader Beware" A General Semantic View of the Potential for Misevaluation in Medical Research Communication by Norman S. Blackman
  • General Semantics and Translation Theory by Alexandra Chciuk-Celt
  • Do You See What I See? by David Scott Goen
  • General Semantics and the Ethics Agenda: New Challenges for the News Media by Jay Black
  • Labor and Contentionally Related Lexical Items in Communist Newspeak: Cases of Soviet Russia and Socialist Germany by Galik I. Artemchuk and George G. Pocheptsov
  • Humanism/Ethics
  • Overview by Susan Presby Kodish
  • Putting Up Lightning Rods: General-Semantics and Secular Humanism by Susan Presby Kodish and Bruce I. Kodish
  • General Semantics and Secular Humanism by Timothy J. Madigan
  • The Ethics of Secular Humanism by Stuart D. Jordon
  • Evaluating Abortion: A General-Semantics Analysis by Bruce I. Kodish
  • Can We Develop a Worldwide Extensional Ethic? by Kenneth L. Baldwin
  • Index
LC Card Number: 97-37550
LCC Class: B820
Dewey Class: 149
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