Richard Jung and the Cybernetic Phenomenology of the Self

摘要

Cybernetics, as a discipline, is well known for having attracted the interest of many gifted polymaths. Indeed, the founders of the discipline (Norbert Wiener, Warren McCullough, Ross Ashby, Gregory Bateson and Heinz von Foerster, to name a few) were just such polymaths. The author of the work under review, Richard Jung, also belongs to the category of polymaths. His areas of special interest include philosophy, individual psychology, social psychology and sociology.