Steps to an Ecology of Mind

Bateson, Gregory

Steps to an Ecology of Mind by Gregory Bateson. - University of Chicago Press ed. - Chicago University of Chicago Press 2000. - xxxii, 533 p. ill.23 cm.

Originally published: San Francisco : Chandler Pub. Co., 1972. With new foreword. Content: Foreword by Mary Catherine Bateson, 1999 Foreword, 1971 Introduction: The Science of Mind and Order Part I: Metalogues Metalogue: Why Do Things Get in a Muddle Metalogue: Why Do Frenchmen? Metalogue: About Games and Being Serious Metalogue: How Much Do You Know? Metalogue: Why Do Things Have Outlines? Metalogue: Why a Swan? Metalogue: What Is an Instinct? Part II: Form and Pattern in Anthropology Culture Contact and Schismogenesis Experiments in Thinking about Observed Ethnological Material Morale and National Character Bali: The Value System of a Steady State Style, Grace, and Information in Primitive Art Comment on Part II Part III: Form and Pathology in Relationship Social Planning and the Concept of Deutero-Learning A Theory of Play and Fantasy Epidemiology of a Schizophrenia Toward a Theory of Schizophrenia The Group Dynamics of Schizophrenia Minimal Requirements for a Theory of Schizophrenia Double Bind, 1969 The Logical Categories of Learning and Communication The Cybernetics of "Self": A Theory of Alcoholism Comment on Part III Part IV: Biology and Evolution On Empty-Headedness among Biologists and State Boards of Education The Role of Somatic Change in Evolution Problems in Cetacean and Other Mammalian Communication A Re-examination of "Bateson's Rule" Comments on Part IV Part V: Epistemology and Ecology Cybernetic Explanation Redundancy and Coding Conscious Purpose versus Nature Effects of Conscious Purpose on Human Adaptation Form, Substance and Difference Comment on Part V Part VI: Crisis in the Ecology of Mind Form Versailles to Cybernetics Pathologies of Epistemology The Roots of Ecological Crisis Ecology and Flexibility in Urban Civilization Index

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Anthropology.
Knowledge, Theory of.
Psychiatry.
Evolution.

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