A recursive vision : ecological understanding and Gregory Bateson /
Gregory Bateson was one of the most original social scientists of this century. He is widely known as author of key ideas used in family therapy - including the well-known condition called 'double bind' . He was also one of the most influential figures in cultural anthropology. In the deca...
| Основен автор: | Harries-Jones, Peter, 1937- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
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Toronto, Ont. :
University of Toronto Press,
1995.
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http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=467879 |
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Print version::
Recursive vision. |
Съдържание:
- ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""A Brief Biographical Chronology of Gregory Bateson""; ""A Note on Reference Style""; ""Introduction""; ""Bateson and the Environment""; ""Bateson and the Science of Ecology""; ""'Ecological Understanding Must Be Ecological'""; ""Epistemology and Recursion""; ""Presentation of Ideas""; ""Chapter Outline""; ""Holism""; ""1 The Youngest Bateson""; ""W.B. ... the Eminent Anti-Darwinist""; ""Like Father Like Son?""; ""Between Art and Science""; ""Fieldwork and Margaret Mead""; ""Naven: The Observer Observing""; ""Steps: Battling for an Epistemology""
- ""Ecology: A 'Post-Political' Movement?""""Conclusion""; ""2 A Theory of Consciousness""; ""Mutual Casual Connectedness""; ""The 'Logic' of Addiction""; ""Alcoholism and Control""; ""The 'Power' of Prayer""; ""Learning as Causality""; ""Epistemology and Social Power""; ""Some Difficulties of Interpretation""; ""A Theory of Consciousness""; ""Pattern and Gestalt""; ""Summary: Alternative Causality""; ""3 The Map Is Not the Territory: Time, Change, and Survival""; ""Indeterminacy""; ""Field Theory: Whitehead and Lewin""; ""Time and Change""; ""Atomic Succession: Whitehead's Pattern of Events""
- ""The Map Is Not the Territory""""'Time Binding': Mapping and Indexing""; ""How Mind Is Part of the System It Seeks to Explain""; ""Problems of Biperspectivism""; ""Mind and Information""; ""Adaptation and Survival""; ""4 Metaphors for Living Forms""; ""Ideas � 'My Fortification'""; ""Hopscotch � a Matrix of Ideas""; ""Radical Software""; ""The Family � a Circle and Its Presence""; ""Metalogues""; ""Working the Metaphor""; ""Parables: Stories for Evoking Gestalt""; ""5 Cybernetics � Janus of Modernity""; ""Negentropy and the Arrow of Time""
- ""Ross Ashby's Homeostat: Adaptive Feedback""""Redefining Noise and Error""; ""The Foundational Science""; ""A Brief Ceremony � 1984""; ""6 Communication and Its Embodiment""; ""The Body-Mind Problem""; ""Context as a Framing Device""; ""Coding: Analogue and Digital""; ""Codes as Rules""; ""Double Bind: The Implicit and the Explicit in Communicative Rules""; ""Redundancy and Metaphor""; ""7 Mind and Nature""; ""Animal and Interspecies Communication""; ""Evolutionary Coding""; ""Reflexiveness in Evolution""; ""'Time Grains'""; ""Darwinism versus Co-evolution""; ""The Turning Point""
- ""8 Recursion""""Difference � a Truly Psychological Concept""; ""Abduction as Qualitative Method""; ""Modularities""; ""Autopoiesis: The Bootstrapping of Form""; ""Self-Referencing Feedback""; ""Recursive Fittedness � a New Beginning""; ""Biological Autonomy""; ""9 The Pattern Which Connects""; ""Bateson and Environmental Activism""; ""'Blaming Our Silly Selves'""; ""Ecological Understanding � Ethics or Aesthetics?""; ""The Processes of Perception""; ""Perception as an Ecological Phenomenon""; ""Laws of Form: A Logic of Recursive Unity""; ""From Active Perception to Active Aesthetics""