Upside-Down Gods: Gregory Bateson's World of Difference
Author:   Peter Harries-Jones
Publisher:   Fordham University Press
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Pages:   296
Publication Date:   02 May 2016
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Author:   Peter Harries-Jones
Publisher:   Fordham University Press
Imprint:   Fordham University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9780823270347


ISBN 10:   0823270343
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   02 May 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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A Brief Biographical Chronology of Gregory Bateson Introduction: A Search for Pattern Part I: Title TK 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 Part II: Title TK 6. Pattern and Process 7. A Post-Genomic View 8. Towards the Semiosphere 9. Ecological Aesthetics as Meta-Pattern Appendix: A Context Lexicon Acknowledgments Notes Select Bibliography Index

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Upside-Down Gods is a gift of meticulous scholarship and insight for all interested in the extraordinary intellectual path of Gregory Bateson and the wide-ranging, multidisciplinary debates he was central to--debates that are still relevant--about anthropology, psychology, animal cognition, biosemiotics, ecology, epistemology, and systems theory. -Tyler Volk, New York University, author of Metapatterns Across Space, Time, and Mind


"""Upside-Down Gods is a gift of meticulous scholarship and insight for all interested in the extraordinary intellectual path of Gregory Bateson and the wide-ranging, multidisciplinary debates he was central to--debates that are still relevant--about anthropology, psychology, animal cognition, biosemiotics, ecology, epistemology, and systems theory.""-Tyler Volk, New York University, author of Metapatterns Across Space, Time, and Mind"


""Upside-Down Gods is a gift of meticulous scholarship and insight for all interested in the extraordinary intellectual path of Gregory Bateson and the wide-ranging, multidisciplinary debates he was central to--debates that are still relevant--about anthropology, psychology, animal cognition, biosemiotics, ecology, epistemology, and systems theory.""-Tyler Volk, New York University, author of Metapatterns Across Space, Time, and Mind


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Peter Harries-Jones is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at York University. He is the author of A Recursive Vision: Ecological Understanding and Gregory Bateson (Toronto).

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