M. J. Rosenberg was born in Johannesburg in 1933. He was educated in Johannesburg, Saxonwold Primary School and then Parktown Boys High School. He went to Witwatersrand University from where he completed his BA English and Philosophy in 1953, BSc Mathematics, Mathematical Statistics and Psychology in 1956. He married Greta Hilewitz in 1958 and emigrated to England in 1959. They divorced in 1966 but she continued to be his closest friend. He then married Dawn Jacobson. He got his PhD in Cybernetics from Brunel University in 1972. Rosenberg published The Cybernetics of Art – Reason and the Rainbow in 1978. He now lives seven months of the year in Kensington, London and the remaining five months in Constantia in Cape Town.
This is at once a personal memoir and the story of what it is like to grow up and live alienated from the values of the society into which one was born. In the deeply fissured modern world, many now find themselves similarly in places where rival ideologies and interests are tearing their worlds apa...
