Upside-Down Gods : Gregory Bateson's World of Difference /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Harries-Jones, Peter
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016
Edition:First edition.
Series:Meaning systems.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Bateson, Gregory, > 1904-1980.
Knowledge, Theory of.
Biology > Philosophy.
Biology > Semiotics.
Anthropology.
Ecology.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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