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edited from the author's posthumous works by Agnes von Cranach translated by Robert D. Martin Here Am I--Where Are You?: The Behavior of the Greylag Goosewas thought to be Konrad Lorenz's last book. However, in 1991 the "Russian Manuscript" was discovered in an attic and its subsequent publication in German has become a scientific sensation. Written under the most extreme conditions in Soviet prison camps, the "Russian Manuscript" was the first outline of a large-scale work on behavioral science. This translation, meticulously edited by his daughter, Agnes von Cranach, contains a synopsis of all the ideas that made Lorenz famous as the founder of ethology, the study of comparative animal behavior. The "Russian Manuscript" was originally planned in 1944 as the first segment of an extended work when the author was Professor of Psychology in Konigsberg. After the war ended, Lorenz, then a prisoner, wrote this first part in Russian camps near Kirov and Yerevan. Later he was allowed to take the manuscript--written on paper sacks and other fragments--back to Austria, where he used it as the basis for such major publications as Behind the Mirror: A Search for a Natural History of Human Knowledge. In 1963-64, the manuscript disappeared, much to Lorenz's distress, and was not recovered until nearly two years after his death.
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Here is the long-delayed publication of the first summary of the principles of ethology, by the man most responsible for the growth of that science. Lorenz (Here Am I--Where Are You?, 1991, etc.) was confined in a Russian POW camp from 1944 to 1948, when he composed what he saw as the first volume of a textbook on comparative behavioral research. While the book remained unpublished, Lorenz reworked many of its ideas for publications on which his stature as the founder of ethology rests. The manuscript was lost in the early '60s, to be recovered only after the author's death in 1989. Now, 50 years after it was begun, it is in print, edited by von Cranach, Lorenz's daughter, and translated from the German by Martin (who worked with Lorenz on the English versions of several of his earlier books). In retrospect, it is easy to see that the ``Russian manuscript'' was a seminal work; only the most basic research had been done in the field that would eventually be called ethology. But its belated publication robs it of much of its impact; much of the material is now either familiar or dated. Lorenz spends half the book laying down fundamental principles: on the relationship of scientific and philosophical research, on scientific methodology, on the specific methods and assumptions of the biological sciences. Moreover, his arguments must be seen in the context of the intellectual climate of the 1940s; for example, his comments on evolution take the view that selection promotes the survival of the species, whereas today it is seen as primarily benefiting individuals. Lorenz is a vigorous writer-- his style is full of exclamations and literary quotations. As a result, this work is consistently readable, even for the nonspecialist. A pioneering work in its field, now interesting primarily as a historical document and the first great work of an unusually literate scientist.
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Written just after World War II, while the author was incarcerated in a Soviet prison camp, this so-called "Russian manuscript" was believed lost forever. Its rediscovery in 1991 and, now, its publication represent a major contribution to the history of science and the advancement of the behavioral sciences. This book contains some of the earliest formulations of the discipline that Lorenz called comparative behavioral research (i.e., ethology); its theories also portend the development of sociobiology and the new fields of behavioral and genetic psychology. He writes, "The route to an understanding of humans leads just as surely through an understanding of animals as the evolutionary pathway of humans had led through animal precursors." Lorenz also devotes almost equal attention to the "Philosophical Prolegomena" as to the "Biological Prologomena," arguing, in the process, for a synthesis between the sciences and the humanities as complementary expressions of human cognition. The text, edited by Lorenz's daughter, is full of literary excesses; although comprehensible to the lay reader, it is not particularly enjoyable to read. Still, such a book's value cannot be measured by its popularity alone. Important for any general science collection and indispensable for all academic or history of science collections.Gregg Sapp, Univ. of Miami Lib. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.