Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology
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...
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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 AnthropologistGregory Bateson (1904-1980) was the author of Naven and Mind and Nature.
Foreword by Mary Catherine Bateson, 1999Foreword, 1971Introduction: The Science of Mind and OrderPart I: MetaloguesMetalogue: Why Do Things Get in a MuddleMetalogue: Why Do Frenchmen?Metalogue: About Games and Being SeriousMetalogue: 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 AnthropologyCulture Contact and SchismogenesisExperiments in Thinking about Observed Ethnological MaterialMorale and National CharacterBali: The Value System of a Steady StateStyle, Grace, and Information in Primitive ArtComment on Part IIPart III: Form and Pathology in RelationshipSocial Planning and the Concept of Deutero-LearningA Theory of Play and FantasyEpidemiology of a SchizophreniaToward a Theory of SchizophreniaThe Group Dynamics of SchizophreniaMinimal Requirements for a Theory of Schizophrenia Double Bind, 1969The Logical Categories of Learning and CommunicationThe Cybernetics of "Self": A Theory of AlcoholismComment on Part IIIPart IV: Biology and EvolutionOn Empty-Headedness among Biologists and State Boards of EducationThe Role of Somatic Change in EvolutionProblems in Cetacean and Other Mammalian CommunicationA Re-examination of "Bateson's Rule"Comments on Part IVPart V: Epistemology and EcologyCybernetic ExplanationRedundancy and Coding Conscious Purpose versus NatureEffects of Conscious Purpose on Human AdaptationForm, Substance andDifferenceComment on Part VPart VI: Crisis in the Ecology of MindForm Versailles to CyberneticsPathologies of EpistemologyThe Roots of Ecological CrisisEcology and Flexibility in Urban CivilizationIndex
