LEM Stanislaw - Philosophy of chance. 1st ed.

LEM Stanislaw - Philosophy of chance. Literature in the light of empirics. Cracow 1968. literary publishing house. 8, s. 608, [3]. Original fawn binding.
Lack of wrapper, otherwise good condition. Cover and embossing of the author's idea designed by Barbara Konarzewska. Edition I. Includes chapters: Formulating the program, Foreground, Creation of the work, Semantics and pragmatics, Informationalism and logic, Applied cybernetics, Social fate, or the meaning of the work, Modernity, or chance, Models of the work, Structuralism and evolutionism, Excursion into semiology, Introduction to metacriticism: cultural theory, A pinch of practice. From the preface: "This book is my second - after 'Technological Summa' - unreasonable undertaking. The unreasonableness of both in that they are - or wish to be - attempts at a 'general theory of everything,' as one of my more illustrious friends expressed himself. For in the 'Summa' it is not so much the decently distinguished technology itself that is the object of consideration, but it gives a relatively unified position from which to proceed toward 'everything'; and in this book such a position is determined by the matter of literature."