Upside-down gods : Gregory Bateson's world of difference / Peter Harries-Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harries-Jones, Peter.

Series:

Meaning systems.

Meaning systems

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bateson, Gregory, 1904-1980.

Bateson, Gregory.

Anthropologists--United States--Biography.

Anthropologists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2016.

Summary:

Human survival requires a reorientation of science away from its exclusive technical and materialist premises focused on control, towards feedback and relational processes of organism-plus-environment. Gregory Bateson's holistic approach unites culture, communication, psychology, biology and ecology within a single trans-disciplinary enquiry substituting pattern, perceptual difference, and relations for 'thinginess' of scientific data.

Contents:

A brief biographical chronology of Gregory Bateson

Introduction : a search for pattern

part I. The enigma of context

1. Culture : a first look at difference

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8232-7038-6

0-8232-7039-4

OCLC:

945612180