John Brockman (literary agent)

John Brockman ( born February 16, 1941 in Boston, Massachusetts ) is an American literary agent.

Life

After completing his studies at Babson Institute of Business Administration from Columbia University in New York City, he was first in the 1960 Multimedia Artist. In 1974 he founded his own company Brockman, Inc. to specialize as a literary agent in the marketing and promotion of prominent scientists from all disciplines that go with their own theses to the public to present their art and their way of thinking popular and intelligible. He became known by the propagated by Keyword him the "third culture," he explained in his book of the same.

Brockman is the founder of the Edge Foundation, a Web page, take a position on the scientists on key issues of research and technology.

Writings

• The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution, Simon & Schuster: 1995 ISBN 0-684823446 ( Eng.: The third culture, the worldview of modern science. Munich: Goldmann, 1996, ISBN 3-442-72035-4. )
• What We Believe but Can not Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty ISBN 0-06-084181-8.