Thanks, Navayauvana! That's a great piece.

You'll also make sure you get ahold of the current issue of ETC (68:2). A "new" Korzybski work is published in there, taken from a transcript of a recording he made.

ETC: A Review of General Semantics / 68:2 / April 2011

Ben

I have just (today) received my copy of Bruce's "Korzybski A Biography".

Congratulations to Bruce for his initiative, time, effort, money, and whatnots he has put into creating this scholarly and monumental work. I have not yet started to read, but having been in touch and having received chapters in the making, I enjoyed Bruce's so easy to read, but well researched style of writing. I look forward to reading this 'finished' biography.

I highly recommend this biography to anyone interested in general semantics. I especially think this a 'must read' for 'students', 'scholars', 'teachers' and trustees of The Institute of General Semantics.

I also give thanks to Susan Kodish whom I feel sure contributed greatly to this book, and to others for their contributions.

I hope this biography gets (if not all) most of the attention I think it deserves.

Well Done Bruce.

My copy of Bruce Kodish's KORZYBSKI arrived yesterday. I'm starting from the front. I'm four pages into Chapter 2 as I type this note. Thank you, Susan, Sanford Berman, Steve Stockdale and others who supported Bruce in his work. How happy it made me to read (p. 17):
By "general semantics," Korzybski had intended a general, applied theory for improving human evaluation--a term which for him combined 'thinking' and 'feeling' and was not necessarily limited to language. In his usage 'semantic reaction' was equivalent to evaluation. (The term 'semantic' as a modifier was used in this context as equivalent to evaluational.)
Back to my reading....

Very cool, ordered. Can't wait to read it.

I finished my first reading of 'Korzybski: A Biography" a few days ago, and got a LOT out of it. It provides very important context to AK's work, and I feel very inspired to re-tackle S&S with what I consider to be 'new eyes'. It also put me onto other related areas of study, which provide a richer understanding of GS, so now I have years worth of study ahead of me .

I highly recommend it to new and old students of GS.

Thank you Bruce Kodish and everyone else who chipped in to make this happen. I shudder to think that this work may not have been completed if Dr. Kodish hadn't stepped up to the task.

Nava-yauvana dās