[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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