Developing Sanity in Human Affairs
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- ISBN 9780313306136
- Publication Date: 30 Dec 1998
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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How can humans learn to function most effectively in their individual and social lives and best approach important ethical and social concerns? Developing Sanity in Human Affairs answers this question through application of general semantics to the fields of education, counseling, communication, critical thinking, journalism, and ethics.
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.
SUSAN PRESBY KODISH, a psychologist in private practice in Baltimore, serves as Education Director of the Institute of General Semantics and Senior Editor of the General Semantics Bulletin.
ROBERT P. HOLSTON is Distinguished Professor of General Semantics and Director of the Hofstra Center for General Semantics and Critical Thinking.
