Upside-Down Gods : : Gregory Bateson's World of Difference / / Peter Harries-Jones.
This intellectual biography covers the trajectory of Bateson’s career, from his anthropological work in Bali alongside his wife, Margaret Mead, to his contributions to family therapy in the United States, and to studies of recursion as a feature of communication patterns in both the human and in the...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Meaning Systems
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- A Brief Biographical Chronology of Gregory Bateson
- Introduction
- Part I: The Enigma of Context
- 1. Culture
- 2. A Science of Decency
- 3. Cybernetic Loops
- 4. Why We See in Outlines
- 5. The Bonds That Bind
- Interlude: From Cultural Structures to Structure in Ecology
- Part II: Nature’s Balance
- 6. Pattern and Process
- 7. A Postgenomic View
- 8. Toward the Semiosphere
- 9. Ecological Aesthetics as Metapattern
- Appendix. A Context Lexicon
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index