Mercedes Vilanova & Frederic Chordá, Eds.	.
A Mind at Work
We are our questions - An homage to Mihai Nadin
(Special Issue Mihai Nadin) 2003, 260 Seiten, Abb., Brosch. EUR 19,80 ISBN 3-935025-51-3
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The book, edited by two distinguished scholars from Spain, who authored also a special issue of Anthropos dedicated to the work of Mihai Nadin, assembles contributions from European and American scholars in various fields who are acquainted with Nadin the person and with his work: Frieder Nake, Peter Bogh Andersen, Jeffrey Nickerson, Solomon Marcus, Heinz von Foerster, Umberto Eco, Frederic Chorda, among others. Corinne Whitaker writes about Nadin’s innovative work as it affects the aesthetic dimension of human activity. Phil Smith makes reference to the education of minds. Blossom Kirschenbaum discusses the inevitable accommodation scholars must make with the new civilization. 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.
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