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Steps to an Ecology of Mind

Gregory Bateson

  • 541 pages · about 9 hours
  • First published 1972
  • 14 editions
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1 About this book

Steps to an Ecology of Mind is a collection of Gregory Bateson's short works over his long and varied career. Subject matter includes essays on anthropology, cybernetics, psychiatry, and epistemology. It was originally published by Ballantine Books in 1972 (republished 2000 with foreword by Mary Catherine Bateson).

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Good for readers who want: the environment, evolution, psychology, and a long read.

  • Anthropology
  • Cultural Anthropology
  • Ecology
  • Evolution
  • Modern Philosophy
  • Psychology
  • Biological Evolution
  • Ethnology

2 About Gregory Bateson

Born 1904

Gregory Bateson (9 May 1904 – 4 July 1980) was an English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician, and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields. His writings include Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972) and Mind and Nature (1979). In Palo Alto, California, Bateson and his colleagues developed the double-bind theory of schizophrenia.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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