Partial memories : sketches from an improbable life / Ernst von Glasersfeld.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glasersfeld, Ernst von, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Glasersfeld, Ernst von.

Philosophers--Germany--Biography.

Philosophers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 p.)

Edition:

3rd ed.

Place of Publication:

Exeter, UK : Imprint Academic, [2015]

Summary:

Autobiographical sketches by the philosopher and semioticist Ernst von Glasersfeld.The author writes:"Memories are a personal affair. They are what comes to mind when you think back, not what might in fact have happened at that earlier time in your life. You can no longer be certain of what seemed important then, because you are now looking at the past with today's eyes. The Italian philosopher Giambattista Vico had that insight three hundred years ago: When we think of things that lie in the past, we see them in terms of the concepts we have now.".

Contents:

Cover ; Contents ; Front Matter ; Title Page ; Publisher Information ; List of Photographs ; Dedication ; Preface ; Quote ; Partial Memories ; Chapter One; My Parents; Boarding School; Moonlight Skiing; Gerda's Fracture; Crossing the Rubicon; Marlene Dietrich; Old Duke Clary; Final Exams; Loch Ness ; Academic Disillusionment; Olympic Games and the Cool, Blue Eyes of Lea; Lesson from Hofmannsthal; Loss of a Friend; Chapter Two; Escape to Australia; Skiing in the Antipodes; Sharks and Other Perils; New Prospects; Leaving Australia; On the Road to Paris; Deciding on Dublin; Chapter Three

Dublin WinterMeeting Erskine; The Glenavys; From Joyce to Vico and Berkeley; Fortunate Accidents; Reflection on Theories; David Robinson; Briscoe's Brother; The Fall of Paris; Café Society; Paddy Perrot; The Chisler; Schrödinger; Mushrooms; Molly O'Rourke; Doubles Player; Leaving Ireland; Chapter Four; First Visit to Meran; Two Break-downs and a Horrible Shock; Filming in Tuscany; Val di Sogno; Breitmoos and the Royal Engineers; The Cybernetics of Snow Drifts; A First Steady Job; The Passion for Snow; Salzburg; Bérénice; Bernard Berenson; Marilyn Monroe; Discord; Etruscan Fantasy

Farewell to my FatherIschia; The Montesi Mystery; Avalanche; Federico Fellini; Chapter Five; The First Research Contract; A Poet's Daughter; Dottore and Mehitabel; Taxes in Milan; Closed Houses; Our Manual Computer; First Taste of America; Condolences; The Wiener Memorial Meeting; Across the Atlantic; Chapter Six; Settling on the Oconee River; Work Ethic; Exploring the South; End of a Life; Skunk; Gripsholm and Upsala; The Moon Landing; Further Drastic Changes; Learning about Insurance; Lana, the Almost Literate Chimp; Thoughts about Reason; Indiscretions about Saints; Teaching Psychology

Chapter SevenLanguage and Thought; Our Lady of the Deep Snow; Getting US Citizenship; Reflections on Time and Space; Faux Pas; Sandra; Heinz von Foerster; Durrell on Love; A Dream about Numbers; Paul Watzlawick; Mountain Magic; Envoy; Afterword; Back Matter ; Also Available

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-84540-577-3

OCLC:

941700246