Series 6 - Books

0.25 m of textual records

This series consists of correspondence, contracts, notes, readers’ comments, reviews, royalties, requests to reproduce, and other material relating to manuscripts for books, along with a file on the game, “Prisoner’s dilemma” that Professor Rapoport invented.
These documents often relate to more than one edition and to the translation into languages other than English or from German into English. Some of Rapoport’s books have been translated into any or all of the following languages: Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. The arrangement of the files is by title and chronologically.
Files on specific books include Science and the goals of man (1950), Operational philosophy (1953) and its German edition, Philosophie heute und morgen (1970), Fights, games and debates (1960), Strategy and conscience (1964), Prisoner’s dilemma: a study of conflict and cooperation (1965), Two-person
game theory (1966), On war /Carl von Clauswitz (1968), N-person game theory: concepts and applications (1970), The big two: Soviet-American perceptions of foreign policy (1971), Bedeutungslehre (1972), Conflict in man-made environment (1974) and its German translation (1976), Game theory as a theory of conflict resolution (1974), Semantics: the essential ideas (1975), Mathematische methoden in den sozialwissenschaften (1980), General system theory: essential concepts and applications (1986) and its German translation (1988), Nonantagonistic games by Yu B. Germeier, translated from the Russian and with a preface by Rapoport (1986), Decision theory and decision behaviour: normative and descriptive approaches (1989), The origins of violence (1989) and its German translation (1990), Peace: an idea whose time has come (1992), his autobiographies, Certainties and doubts: a philosophy of life (2000), and Skating on thin ice (2002). The English and Russian drafts of his book, Conversations with 3 Russians, are found in Series 5. Only the Russian version has been published; it appeared as Tri razgovora s russkini: ob istine, I ‘i’ ubvi, bor’be i mire in 2002.
The series ends with correspondence, primarily requests for permission to reprint material from books, articles, and radio talks. Some contracts are included.

B2005-0018/061 (02) – (20)
Science and the goals of man (1950) – Philosophie heute und morgen (1970)

B2005-0018/062
N-person game theory (1970) – Skating on thin ice (2002) ; letters of permission (1961-1991)

Related correspondence can be found in Series 2.