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"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 Anthropologist
Gregory Bateson (1904-1980) was the author of Naven and Mind and Nature.
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Table of Contents
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