Alfred Korzybski's Thought and the Question of the Search for Truth in Journalist's Work

• Authors: Wiesław Wacławczyk

Abstracts

EN

In 1933, twelve years aer his Manhood and Humanity came out, Alfred Korzybski (1879-1950), a Polish aristocrat who arrived in the United States during World War I, published his most famous book called Science and Sanity. A former Russian intelligence officer, earlier trained as a chemical engineer at the Polytechnic Institute in Warsaw, Korzybski had a broad-ranging intellectual background, which he employed to work out his theory of general semantics. It is beyond doubt that the theory under discussion can help journalists depict the reality of the world in its multidimensional complexity – and thus make their performance more professional.

Keywords

EN

truth in journalist's work; Alfred Korzybski; journalist

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: Polish Political Science Yearbook
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 36
• Pages: 255-262

Dates

published

2007

Contributors

author

Wiesław Wacławczyk

• Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (Poland)

Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/ppsy2007017

Biblioteka Nauki

2028558