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

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Gregory Bateson Mary Catherine Bateson

Steps to an Ecology of Mind

Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology

Gregory Bateson, Mary Catherine Bateson

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Chicago University Press
15 April 2000

Western philosophy, from c 1900 -; Philosophy of mind; Society & Social Sciences; Sociology & anthropology

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

By: Gregory Bateson
Foreword by: Mary Catherine Bateson
Imprint: Chicago University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 22mm, Width: 14mm, Spine: 3mm
Weight: 765g
ISBN: 9780226039053
ISBN 10: 0226039056
Pages: 564
Publication Date: 15 April 2000
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

This excellent set of essays, both scholarly and imaginative, offers a rare bridge between the parallel universes of legal scholarship and courtroom practice.