[ISBN:0226039056 "Steps To An Ecology Of Mind"] by [Gregory Bateson]

!!Contents
* Foreword by Mary Catherine Bateson, 1999
* Foreword, 1971
* Introduction: the Science of Mind and Order
* Part I: Metalogues
Metalogue: Why Do Things Get In a Muddle
 Metalogue: Why Do Frenchmen?
Metalogue: About Games and Being Serious
 Metalogue: How Much Do You Know?
Metalogue: Why Do Things have Outlines?
 Metalogue: Why a Swan?
Metalogue: What is an Instinct
* Part II: Form and Pattern in Anthropology
 Culture Contact and Schismogenesis
Experiments in Thinking About Observed Ethnological Material
 Morale and National Character
Bali: the value System of a Steady State
 Style, Grace and Information in Primitive Art
Comment on Part II
* Part III: Form and Pathology In Relationship
 Social Planning and the Concept of Deutero-Learning
A Theory of Play and Fantasy
Epidemiology of a Schizophrenia
Toward a Theory of Schizophrenia
The Group dynamics of Schizophrenia
Minimal Requirements for a Theory of Schizophrenia
Double Bind, 1969
The Logical Categories of Learning and Communication
 The Cybernetics of "Self": A theory of Alcoholism
Comment on Part III
* Part IV: Biology and Evolution
 On Empty-Headedness among Biologists and State Boards of Education
The Role of Somatic Change in Evolution
 Problems in Cetacean and Other Mammalian Communication
A Re-examination of "Bateson's Rule"
 Comments on Part IV
* Part V: Epistemology and Ecology
Cybernetic Explanation
 Redundancy and Coding
Conscious Purpose versus Nature
 Effects of Conscious Purpose on Human Adaptation
Form, Substance and Difference
 Comment on Part V
* Part VI: Crisis in the Ecology of Mind
From Versailles to Cybernetics
 Pathologies of Epistemology
The Roots of Ecological Crisis
 Ecology and Flexibility in Urban Civilisation

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