Book Description

A Mind at Work. We are our questions. (Mercedes Vilanova and Frederic Chorda, Eds.)


This book is edited by two distinguished scholars from Spain, who also edited a special issue of the journal Anthropos. Hallmarks of Knowledge, dedicated to the work of Mihai Nadin. The book presents contributions from European and American scholars in various fields who are acquainted with Nadin the person and with his work: Frieder Nake (computer science, Germany), Peter Bogh Andersen (computer science, Denmark), Jeffrey Nickerson (information technology, USA), Solomon Marcus (mathematics, Romania) Heinz von Foerster (cybernetics, USA), Umberto Eco (semiotics, history, novelist, Italy), Frederic Chorda (art history and multimedia, Spain), among others. Corinne Whitaker (computer artist AKA Digital Giraffe) writes about Nadin’s innovative work as it affects the aesthetic dimension of human activity. Phil Smith (education, Ohio State University) makes reference to the education of minds. Blossom Kirschenbaum (comparative literature, Brown University) discusses the inevitable accommodation scholars must make with the new civilization.

According to the editors of Anthropos:

“Mihai Nadin’s ideas are different and innovative; most are not yet part of mainstream thinking. But academia and other institutions will eventually catch up with him. He departs from the world of determinism and from the cultural forms that impose a single norm for the unfolding of human destiny. Having demonstrated that the traditional idea of literacy as the dominant criterion for knowledge and authority belongs to the past, Nadin argues for many possible paths of creativity, for diversity characteristic of our new civilization.”

One section of the book provides a selection of Nadin’s articles in art history, aesthetics, education, mind, computer science, semiotics, along with his own literary works. Last but not least, Nadin’s introductory essay, written for this book, traces his own mind at work.

The book can also be ordered from the publisher http://www.synchron-publishers.com

To purchase the Spanish-language edition from Anthropos, contact: anthropos@sarenet.es
Website: http://www.anthropos-editorial.com


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