Harries-Jones, Peter. <br/><br/>
Upside-down gods  Gregory Bateson's world of difference /  [electronic resource] : 
Peter Harries-Jones. 
 - First edition. 
 - Baltimore, Maryland :  Project Muse,  2016 New York [New York] :  Fordham University Press,  [2016] 
 - 1 online resource (1 PDF (x, 279 pages) :)  illustrations 
 - Meaning systems .
 - Meaning systems. UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
<br/><br/> Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-272) and index. 
<br/><br/>A brief biographical chronology of Gregory Bateson -- Introduction : a search for pattern -- part I. The enigma of context -- 1. Culture : a first look at difference -- 2. A science of decency -- 3. Cybernetic loops -- 4. Why we see in outlines -- 5. The bonds that bind -- Interlude : from cultural structures to structure in ecology -- part II. Nature's balance -- 6. Pattern and process -- 7. A postgenomic view -- 8. Toward the semiosphere -- 9. Ecological aesthetics as metapattern -- Appendix : a context lexicon. 
<br/><br/> Science's conventional understanding of environment as an inert material resource underlies our unwillingness to acknowledge the military-industrial role in ongoing ecological catastrophes. In a crucial challenge to modern science's exclusive attachment to materialist premises, Bateson reframed culture, psychology, biology, and evolution in terms of feedback and communication, fundamentally altering how we perceive our relationship with nature. This intellectual biography covers the whole trajectory of Bateson's career, from his first anthropological work alongside Margaret Mead through the afterlife of his work in the development of biosemiotics. Harries-Jones shows how the sum of Bateson's thinking across numerous fields turns our notions of causality upside down, providing a moral divide between sustainable creativity and our perpetration of biocide. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780823270392 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Bateson, Gregory, 1904-1980. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Knowledge, Theory of.<br/>Biology--Philosophy.<br/>Biology--Semiotics.<br/>Anthropology.<br/>Ecology.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.<br/>Electronic books. 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GN21.B383  / H378 2016