Author: Kecskemeti, Paul
Title: Meaning, Comunication and Value
Description: Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1952. orig.cloth. 23x15cm, viii,349 pp, Inscribed by author,in Hungarian,in ink on reverse of half-title, dated 27 Dec. 1952.. Rubbed, binding corners bumped,dustwrapper torn & rubbed,Good+. ¶ Kecskemeti,a Hungarian exile philosopher,married Karl Mannheim's wife Julia's sister Erzsebet Lang,was personally close to Mannheim, and authored "A szociologia tortenetfilozofiai megalapozasa: Mannheim Karoly" [1926] & the "Introduction" to the 1952 Oxford edition of Mannheim's " Essays on the Sociology of Knowledge". [From the author's preface: "The present book is the fruit of long meditations. Its first version was finished just when the second World War started. Since then the author has resumed work on it repeatedly but has had to let it lie for long periods because of other obligations..."]. Contents:Introduction: The Concept of Meaning; Meaning & Situation: The Categories of Meaning; Standards of Meaning; Meaning & Behavior: Meaning & Consciousness; Learning & Freedom; Meaning & Language: Symbols; Sentences; The Language of Empirical Science; The Language of Interpretation; Meaning & Value: Motives, Norms, and Values; The Autonomous Values; The Validation of Judgements of Value.

Keywords: Philosophy of Knowledge, Hungarian Exiles, Exile Intellectuals, Karl Mannheim, , , , ,