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| Introduction | ||
| Overview | 3 | |
| 1 | General Semantics: The Next Generation | 5 |
| 2 | Thinking Critically about Sources of Information | 37 |
| 3 | Integrating Critical Thinking and General Semantics: An Interactive Panel | 55 |
| 4 | Living in an "as if" World: Some Reflections on "The Map Is Not the Territory" | 71 |
| 5 | The Most 'Consequential' Elementalism | 77 |
| 6 | General-Semantics and Fuzzy Logic/Sets: Similarities and Differences | 82 |
| 7 | How General Semantics Can Rescue Biology from Itself: A Biology with Biologists in It | 96 |
| 8 | General-Semantics: A Critical and Meta-Critical System | 137 |
| 9 | Undecidability in Quantum Physics, Chaos Theory, and Deconstruction: Implications for Politics, Ethics, and Society | 143 |
| 10 | [Sigma]EOS: A Fourth Non-Aristotelian Model | 154 |
| 11 | A General Semantics Approach to Appreciating Cultural Diversity | 187 |
| 12 | A North-South Bridge of General Semantics: The Cross-Cultural Approach in an International and a National Environment | 197 |
| 13 | How General Semantics Contributes to the Understanding of Violence | 201 |
| 14 | Breaking the Taboo: A Critical Look at Barriers to Thought and Discussion of Assisted Suicide for the Terminally III | 206 |
| 15 | Healing Medicine with Language | 217 |
| 16 | The Importance of Story-Telling to Time-Binding: Crucial Issues for General Semantics to Address | 225 |
| 17 | Problem Solving with General-Semantics | 236 |
| 18 | A General Semantics Approach to Clinical Supervision with Drug Prevention Counselors | 253 |
| 19 | The Irving J. Lee Method of Teaching General Semantics | 260 |
| 20 | "Got-to-Be, Got-to-Be, Dom-in-o's!": The Semantics of Student Responses to TV Commercials | 268 |
| 21 | 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 | 277 |
| 22 | Professor A and Professor B: Illustrating Concepts in the General Semantics Course | 292 |
| 23 | Dream Education and General Semantics | 296 |
| 24 | General Semantics and Zen: Complementary Guides for Sane Living | 303 |
| 25 | Using General Semantics as the Theoretical Foundation for Teaching Media Literacy | 313 |
| 26 | Cavcat Lector: "Let the Reader Beware" A General Semantic View of the Potential for Misevaluation in Medical Research Communication | 320 |
| 27 | General Semantics and Translation Theory | 328 |
| 28 | Do You See What I See? Pictures, Facts, Illusions, and Learning to See | 342 |
| 29 | General Semantics and the Ethics Agenda: New Challenges for the News Media | 370 |
| 30 | Labor and Contentially Related Lexical Items in Communist Newspeak: Cases of Soviet Russia and Socialist Germany | 383 |
| 31 | Putting up Lightning Rods: General-Semantics and Secular Humanism | 393 |
| 32 | General Semantics and Secular Humanism | 401 |
| 33 | The Ethics of Secular Humanism | 407 |
| 34 | Evaluating Abortion: A General-Semantics Analysis | 412 |
| 35 | Can We Develop a Worldwide Extensional Ethic? | 420 |
| Index | 427 | |
| About the Contributors | 433 |
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Roy Winkworth
reviewed Developing Sanity In Human Affairs, Vol. 54 on March 24, 2014
Developing Sanity In Human Affairs
Whoever had the chutzpah to say this is "Readable" is a criminal and belongs in jail. Interesting? Yes! But also a tremendously dry read. I might be the wrong audience, but it takes a lot of effort to tease out at the end of a chapter 'and your conclusion is...?'
It's a patently huge survey of gender in English, from the codifying of gendered nouns to gendered connotations and denotations. It's incredibly well-researched. And there's some really fascinating examples given -- I wasn't aware that bomb makers referred to successful bombs as "boys" and failed bombs as "girls," or that "oh boy" might be a lingering reference to the devil. Heck, I wouldn't mind reading some of the Old English text examples all day. For every interesting detail, though, there's a stack of quotes, technical terms that make my eyes bleed, and winding complex arguments that leave me none the wiser.
It feels like this book is a big accomplishment, but I'm just happy it's over. She makes a lot of good points (the evolution of gender in words is complex, and a word's gendered history isn't always clear cut). Maybe her most interesting point she brings up is now that English is so standardized now and we have ready access to how it's codified, its growth and history is under new and powerful forces (dictionaries in an of themselves are a force on the meaning of words). I don't know if her final chapter on how to approach reform really provides anything clear cut, but there sure is a lot of food for thought.
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