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Upside-Down Gods : Gregory Bateson's World of Difference /
Science's conventional understanding of environment as an inert material resource underlies our unwillingness to acknowledge the military-industrial role in ongoing ecological catastrophes. In a crucial challenge to modern science's exclusive attachment to materialist premises, Bateson ref...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2016
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Meaning systems.
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.