Steps To An Ecology Of Mind

Author : Gregory Bateson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226039053
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Steps to an Ecology of Mind written by Gregory Bateson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gregory Bateson was a philosopher, anthropologist, photographer, naturalist, and poet, as well as the husband and collaborator of Margaret Mead. This classic anthology of his major work includes a new Foreword by his daughter, Mary Katherine Bateson. 5 line drawings.

Author : Gregory Bateson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226039053
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Steps to an Ecology of Mind written by Gregory Bateson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gregory Bateson was a philosopher, anthropologist, photographer, naturalist, and poet, as well as the husband and collaborator of Margaret Mead. With a new foreword by his daughter Mary Katherine Bateson, this classic anthology of his major work will continue to delight and inform generations of readers. "This collection amounts to a retrospective exhibition of a working life. . . . Bateson has come to this position during a career that carried him not only into anthropology, for which he was first trained, but into psychiatry, genetics, and communication theory. . . . He . . . examines the nature of the mind, seeing it not as a nebulous something, somehow lodged somewhere in the body of each man, but as a network of interactions relating the individual with his society and his species and with the universe at large."—D. W. Harding, New York Review of Books "[Bateson's] view of the world, of science, of culture, and of man is vast and challenging. His efforts at synthesis are tantalizingly and cryptically suggestive. . . .This is a book we should all read and ponder."—Roger Keesing, American Anthropologist

Author : Gregory Bateson, PhD
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781913743796
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Sacred Unity written by Gregory Bateson, PhD and published by . This book was released on 2023-09-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 31 posthumously collected lectures and writings, anthropologist, systems thinker and cyberneticist Gregory Bateson (1904-1980) addresses questions of ecology, mind, consciousness, linguistics, evolution, and communication. His masterly synthesis stresses the need to re-establish a ' sacred unity' between the human mind and the biosphere.

Author : Gregory Bateson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226039056
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Steps to an Ecology of Mind written by Gregory Bateson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gregory Bateson was a philosopher, anthropologist, photographer, naturalist, and poet, as well as the husband and collaborator of Margaret Mead. This classic anthology of his major work includes a new Foreword by his daughter, Mary Katherine Bateson. 5 line drawings.

Author : Mary Catherine Bateson
Publisher : Hampton Press (NJ)
ISBN 13 : 9781572736016
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Own Metaphor written by Mary Catherine Bateson and published by Hampton Press (NJ). This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Own Metaphor, now being re-issued by Hampton Press, provide an approach to the basic question of whether humans, with their increasingly powerful technologies, will ultimately destroy the environment on which they depend or prove capable of a new level of adaptation. The book suggests that any solution to the world's myriad problems must be grounded in an empathetic understanding of systems - from the ecology of nature to the loving interdependence of families.

Author : Peter Harries-Jones
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802075918
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Recursive Vision written by Peter Harries-Jones and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gregory Bateson was one of the most original social scientists of this century. He is widely known as author of key ideas used in family therapy - including the well-known condition called 'double bind' . He was also one of the most influential figures in cultural anthropology. In the decade before his death in 1980 Bateson turned toward a consideration of ecology. Standard ecology concentrates on an ecosystem's biomass and on energy budgets supporting life. Bateson came to the conclusion that understanding ecological organization requires a complete switch in scientific perspective. He reasoned that ecological phenomena must be explained primarily through patterns of information and that only through perceiving these informational patterns will we uncover the elusive unity, or integration, of ecosystems. Bateson believed that relying upon the materialist framework of knowledge dominant in ecological science will deepen errors of interpretation and, in the end, promote eco-crisis. He saw recursive patterns of communication as the basis of order in both natural and human domains. He conducted his investigation first in small-scale social settings; then among octopus, otters, and dolphins. Later he took these investigations to the broader setting of evolutionary analysis and developed a framework of thinking he called 'an ecology of mind.' Finally, his inquiry included an ecology of mind in ecological settings - a recursive epistemology. This is the first study of the whole range of Bateson's ecological thought - a comprehensive presentaionof Bateson's matrix of ideas. Drawing on unpublished letters and papers, Harries-Jones clarifies themes scattered throughout Bateson's own writings, revealing the conceptual consistency inherent in Bateson's position, and elaborating ways in which he pioneered aspects of late twentieth-century thought.

Author : Christopher M. Bache
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791446058
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dark Night, Early Dawn written by Christopher M. Bache and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2000-05-26 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining philosophical reflections with deep self-exploration to delve into the ancient mystery of death and rebirth, this book emphasizes collective rather than individual transformation. Drawing upon twenty years of experience working with nonordinary states, the author argues that when the deep psyche is hyper-simulated using Stanislaw Grof's powerful therapeutic methods, the healing that results sometimes extends beyond the individual to the collective unconscious of humanity itself.

Author : Gregory Bateson
Publisher : Hampton Press (NJ)
ISBN 13 : 9781572734340
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mind and Nature written by Gregory Bateson and published by Hampton Press (NJ). This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A re-issue of Gregory Bateson's classic work. It summarizes Bateson's thinking on the subject of the patterns that connect living beings to each other and to their environment.

Author : Noel G. Charlton
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791478270
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Gregory Bateson written by Noel G. Charlton and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gregory Bateson (1904–1980), anthropologist, psychologist, systems thinker, student of animal communication, and insightful environmentalist, was one of the most important holistic thinkers of the twentieth century. Noel G. Charlton offers this first truly accessible introduction to Bateson's work, distilling and clarifying Bateson's understanding of the "mind" or "mental systems" as being present throughout the living Earth, in systems and creatures of all kinds. Part biography, part overview of the evolution of his ideas, Charlton's book situates Bateson's thought in relation to that of other ecological thinkers. This long-awaited volume opens up this challenging thinker's body of work and introduces it to a new generation of readers.

Author : Nora Bateson
Publisher : Triarchy Press
ISBN 13 : 190947097X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Small Arcs of Larger Circles written by Nora Bateson and published by Triarchy Press. This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an important first collection of essays, reflections and poems by Nora Bateson, the noted research designer, film-maker, writer and lecturer. She is the daughter of Gregory Bateson, president of the International Bateson Institute (IBI) and an adviser to numerous bodies at international and governmental level.