Ervin Lazslo
The
Chaos Point: The World at the Crossroads
Ervin Laszlo is the author or editor of
sixty-nine books translated into as many as nineteen languages,
and has over four hundred articles and research papers and six
volumes of piano recordings to his credit. He serves as editor
of the monthly World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution
and of its associated General Evolution Studies book series.
Laszlo is generally recognized as the founder of systems
philosophy and general evolution theory, serving as
founder-director of the General Evolution Research Group and as
past president of the International Society for the Systems
Sciences. He is the recipient of the highest degree in
philosophy and human sciences from the Sorbonne, the University
of Paris, as well as of the coveted Artist Diploma of the Franz
Liszt Academy of Budapest. His numerous prizes and awards
include four honorary doctorates.
His appointments have included research grants at Yale and
Princeton Universities, professorships for philosophy, systems
sciences, and future sciences at the Universities of Houston,
Portland State, and Indiana, as well as Northwestern University
and the State University of New York. His career has also
included guest professorships at various universities in Europe
and the Far East. In addition, Laszlo worked as program director
for the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR).
In 1999 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Canadian
International Institute of Advanced Studies in Systems Research
and Cybernetics.
Laszlo serves as president of the Club of Budapest and head of
the General Evolution Research Group, which he founded. He is an
advisor to the UNESCO Director General, ambassador of the
International Delphic Council, member of both the International
Academy of Science, World Academy of Arts and Science, and the
International Academy of Philosophy. He is the former president
of the International Society for Systems Sciences.
This is a fabulous interview of Ervin Laszlo on Dutch TV with
wonderful pictures
Unforgettable!!!
This is a 30 minutes video with lazlo english-spoken (after
intro of 5') / dutch undertitled
http://www.nederland2.nl/uitzendinggemist/programma/alziend-oog/741
instructions: click on LINE 31 december 2006 ... alziend oog ...
...(blue) "bekijk" <= click on that blue
Enjoy The Genius
Michael Ellis
AUSTRALIA |
