Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology

ISBN-13: 9780226039053 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 564 str.

Gregory Bateson

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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 Anthropologist

O autorze

Gregory Bateson (1904 - 1980), Anthropologe, Biologe, Sozialwissenschaftler, Kybernetiker und Philosoph. Bateson behandelte die von ihm untersuchten Gebiete nicht als getrennte Disziplinen, sondern als verschiedene Aspekte und Facetten, in denen seine systemisch-kybernetische Denkweise zum Tragen kommt. Er hat großen Einfluss auf die System- und Familientherapie und beeinflusste verschiedene theoretische Strömungen in der Soziologie und Anthropologie.