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The Dream of Reality. Heinz Von Foerster's Constructivism.
Lynn Segal
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Description for The Dream of Reality. Heinz Von Foerster's Constructivism.
Paperback. What if there were no objective facts, no objective truth, no objectivity at all, only our belief in them? What if our consciousness itself is an unconscious invention, constructed out of logic and language? This book suggests that we must first know how we think before we can claim knowledge of the world. Num Pages: 163 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ACXD; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 162 x 233 x 11. Weight in Grams: 278.
BY HEINZ VON FOERSTER s a matter of fact, the Heinz von Foer ster who writes these lines and whom one can see or hear among family ther apists on one occasion or another is an invention of Paul Watzlawick. I met my inventor for the first time more than ten years ago in Cali fornia. My services to the University of Illinois, after about 30 years, had come to an end, and I was looking for a place where my wife and I could retire and spend the rest of our lives procul negotiis. Paul Watzlawick first introduced himself ... Read more
BY HEINZ VON FOERSTER s a matter of fact, the Heinz von Foer ster who writes these lines and whom one can see or hear among family ther apists on one occasion or another is an invention of Paul Watzlawick. I met my inventor for the first time more than ten years ago in Cali fornia. My services to the University of Illinois, after about 30 years, had come to an end, and I was looking for a place where my wife and I could retire and spend the rest of our lives procul negotiis. Paul Watzlawick first introduced himself ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
163
Condition
New
Number of Pages
163
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9780387951300
SKU
V9780387951300
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Reviews for The Dream of Reality. Heinz Von Foerster's Constructivism.
SOME PRAISE FOR THE PREVIOUS EDITION: "Segal…amicably succeed(s) in making rather profound insights seductively easy to read and in maintaining von Foerster’s oratory flair…” –JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION "(a) richly provocative book…” –JOURNAL OF MARITAL AND FAMILY THERAPY From the reviews of the second edition: "Segal, a psychotherapist, initiated this work as a ... Read more