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Steps to an Ecology of Mind
Bateson, Gregory
Publisher: Ballantine Books, New York, USAYear Published: 1972 Pages: 517pp ISBN: 345-02479-6-195 Resource Type: Book The questions which this book raises are ecological; how do ideas interact? Is there some sort of natural selection which determines the survival of some ideas and the extinction or death of others? What sort of economics limits the multiplicity of ideas in a given region of mind. Abstract: - Table of Contents Preface, Mark Engel Foreword 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 Illustrations for " A Re-examination of 'Bateson's Rule' " The Roleof Somatic Change in Evolution Problems in Cetacean and Other Mammalian Communication A Re-examination of "Bateson's Rule" 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 Part VI: Crisis in the Ecology of Mind From Versailles to Cybernetics Pathologies of Epistemology The Roots of Ecological Crisis Ecology and Flexibility in Urban Civilization The Published Work of Gregory Bateson Subject Headings |