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Runaway : Gregory Bateson, the double bind, and the rise of ecological consciousness /

The anthropologist Gregory Bateson has been called a lost giant of twentieth-century thought. In the years following World War II, Bateson was among the group of mathematicians, engineers, and social scientists who laid the theoretical foundations of the information age. In Palo Alto in 1956, he int...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chaney, Anthony (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Bateson, Gregory, > 1904-1980.
Anthropologists > United States > Biography.
Human ecology > History > 20th century.
Human ecology > Philosophy.
Nineteen sixties.
Postmodernism.
Anthropologists.
Human ecology.
United States.
Ökologie.
Umweltbewusstsein.
1900-1999
Biography.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • The way to Waimanalo
  • Difficulties at the metalevel
  • The hurly-burly of natural history
  • Faith and fight
  • Signals from the goal
  • Double-bind generation
  • Animal stories
  • The good son
  • Schismogenesis
  • The curious twist
  • Love and trust
  • The back end of the probe.