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Understanding Gregory Bateson

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Author : Noel G. Charlton
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2010-03-25

Understanding Gregory Bateson written by Noel G. Charlton and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-25 with Science categories.

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.

A Recursive Vision

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Author : Peter Harries-Jones
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 1995-01-01

A Recursive Vision written by Peter Harries-Jones and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-01-01 with Philosophy categories.

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.

Mind And Nature

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Author : Gregory Bateson
language : en
Publisher: Hampton Press (NJ)
Release Date : 2002

Mind And Nature written by Gregory Bateson and has been published by Hampton Press (NJ) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Ethnology categories.

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.

Gregory Bateson On Relational Communication From Octopuses To Nations

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Author : Phillip Guddemi
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-10-03

Gregory Bateson On Relational Communication From Octopuses To Nations written by Phillip Guddemi and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-03 with Science categories.

This book develops Gregory Bateson’s ideas regarding “communication about relationship” in animals and human beings, and even nations. It bases itself on Bateson’s theory of relational communication, as he described it in the zoosemiotics of octopus, mammals, birds, and human beings. This theory includes, for example, the roles of metaphor, play, analog and digital communication, metacommunication, and Laws of Form. It is organized around a letter from Gregory Bateson to his fellow cybernetic thinker Warren McCulloch at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis. In this letter Bateson argued that what we would today call zoosemiotics, including Bateson’s own (previously unpublished) octopus research, should be made a basis for understanding the relationship between the two blocs of the Cold War. Accordingly the book shows how Bateson understood interactive processes in the biosemiotics of conflict and peacemaking, which are analyzed using examples from recent animal studies, from primate studies, and from cultural anthropology. The Missile Crisis itself is described in terms of Bateson’s critique of game theory which he felt should be modified by an understanding of the zoosemiotics of relational communication. The book also includes a previously unpublished piece by Gregory Bateson on wolf behavior and metaphor/ abduction.

Runaway

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Author : Anthony Chaney
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-11-02

Runaway written by Anthony Chaney and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

The anthropologist Gregory Bateson has been called a lost giant of twentieth-century thought. In the years following World War II, Bateson was among the group of mathematicians, engineers, and social scientists who laid the theoretical foundations of the information age. In Palo Alto in 1956, he introduced the double-bind theory of schizophrenia. By the sixties, he was in Hawaii studying dolphin communication. Bateson's discipline hopping made established experts wary, but he found an audience open to his ideas in a generation of rebellious youth. To a gathering of counterculturalists and revolutionaries in 1967 London, Bateson was the first to warn of a "greenhouse effect" that could lead to runaway climate change. Blending intellectual biography with an ambitious reappraisal of the 1960s, Anthony Chaney uses Bateson's life and work to explore the idea that a postmodern ecological consciousness is the true legacy of the decade. Surrounded by voices calling for liberation of all kinds, Bateson spoke of limitation and dependence. But he also offered an affirming new picture of human beings and their place in the world--as ecologies knit together in a fabric of meaning that, said Bateson, "we might as well call Mind."

A Legacy For Living Systems

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Author : Jesper Hoffmeyer
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2008-02-01

A Legacy For Living Systems written by Jesper Hoffmeyer and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-02-01 with Science categories.

Gregory Bateson’s contribution to 20th century thinking has appealed to scholars from a wide range of fields dealing in one way or another with aspects of communication and epistemology. A number of his insights were taken up and developed further in anthropology, psychology, evolutionary biology and communication theory. But the large, trans-disciplinary synthesis that, in his own mind, was his major contribution to science received little attention from the mainstream scientific communities. This book represents a major attempt to revise this deficiency. Scholars from ecology, biochemistry, evolutionary biology, cognitive science, anthropology and philosophy discuss how Bateson's thinking might lead to a fruitful reframing of central problems in modern science. Most important perhaps, Bateson's bioanthropology is shown to play a key role in developing the set of ideas explored in the new field of biosemiotics. The idea that organismic life is indeed basically semiotic or communicative lies at the heart of the biosemiotic approach to the study of life. The only book of its kind, this volume provides a key resource for the quickly-growing substratum of scholars in the biosciences, philosophy and medicine who are seeking an elegant new approach to exploring highly complex systems.

Understanding Gregory Bateson

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Author : Noel G. Charlton
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 2008-05-08

Understanding Gregory Bateson written by Noel G. Charlton and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-05-08 with Science categories.

Introduction to Gregory Bateson’s unique perspective on the relationship of humanity to the natural world.

A Sacred Unity

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Author : Gregory Bateson
language : en
Publisher: Harper San Francisco
Release Date : 1991

A Sacred Unity written by Gregory Bateson and has been published by Harper San Francisco this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Philosophy categories.

In his new collection of essays, Bateson, author of the enormously influential book Steps to an Ecology of Mind, takes readers further along the pathways by which he arrived at his now-famous synthesis, and continues to illuminate such diverse fields as biology, anthropology, psychiatry, and linguistics.

Angels Fear

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Author : Gregory Bateson
language : en
Publisher: Bantam Dell Publishing Group
Release Date : 1988

Angels Fear written by Gregory Bateson and has been published by Bantam Dell Publishing Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Religion categories.

Discusses mental processes, the role of humans in nature, experience, and the connection between myth, religion, and science

About Bateson

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Author : Gregory Bateson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978

About Bateson written by Gregory Bateson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Philosophy categories.