Understanding Gregory Bateson : mind, beauty, and the sacred earth
"Gregory Bateson (1904-1980), anthropologist, psychologist, systems thinker, student of animal communication, and insightful environmentalist, was one of the most important holistic thinkers of the twentieth century. Noel G. Charlton offers this first truly accessible introduction to Bateson's work, distilling and clarifying Bateson's understanding of the "mind" or "mental systems" as being present throughout the living Earth, in systems and creatures of all kinds. Part biography, part overview of the evolution of his ideas, Charlton's book situates Bateson's thought in relation to that of other ecological thinkers. This long awaited volume opens up this challenging thinker's body of work and introduces it to a new generation of readers."--Jacket
eBook, English, ©2008
State University of New York Press, Albany, ©2008
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (xvi, 276 pages) : illustrations
9781435658561, 9780791478271, 1435658566, 0791478270
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Introduction: Gregory Bateson : the urgency of our ecological crisis and the possibility of grace
Bateson : the man and the growth of his ideas
Mind and Bateson's claims : the living world is organized by minds
The evolution of Bateson's thought about aesthetics : the earlier years
Aesthetics, ecology and the path towards grace
Aesthetic engagement and the grace of relatedness
Bateson and the sacred
Wise action?
English