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1 online resource : illustrations |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Print version record |
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Glasersfeld, Ernst von
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| SUBJECT |
Glasersfeld, Ernst von fast |
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Philosophers -- Germany -- Biography
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Philosophy, German -- 20th century.
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Constructivism (Philosophy)
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Knowledge, Theory of.
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epistemology.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
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Constructivism (Philosophy)
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Knowledge, Theory of
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Philosophers
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Philosophy, German
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Germany
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1845405773 |
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9781845405779 |
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