What pattern connects the crab to the lobster and the orchid to the primrose and all four of them to me?
Gregory Bateson Books
May 9, 1904 – July 4, 1980
This English anthropologist and social scientist possessed a remarkable ability to recognize order and patterns in the universe. His work uniquely bridged disciplines like anthropology, cybernetics, and systems theory, extending their reach into the social sciences. He dedicated significant effort to developing a "meta-science" of epistemology, aiming to unify emerging systems theories across various scientific fields. His writings explore the intricate connections between mind and nature, emphasizing the recognition of patterns and relationships within complex systems.
Gregory Bateson was a philosopher, anthropologist, photographer, naturalist and poet, as well as the husband and collaborator of Margaret Mead. This anthology of his major work contains a foreword by his daughter Mary Katherine Bateson. schovat popis
A re-issue of Gregory Bateson's classic work. It summarizes Bateson's thinking on the subject of the patterns that connect living beings to each other and to their environment.
Dove gli angeli esitano. Verso un'epistemologia del sacro
- 332 pages
- 12 hours of reading
Ancora una volta, Bateson ci dà la prova in questo libro che la sua missione non era quella di mettere a posto le cose, ma di scompaginarle e di obbligarci a ripensarle.
Schizophrenie und Familie
- 421 pages
- 15 hours of reading
Die in diesem Band enthaltenen Texte »sind das Ergebnis jahrelanger Forschungen mehrerer unabhängig voneinander arbeitenden Teams, denen Psychoanalytiker, klinische Psychiater, Lerntheoretiker und Kulturanthropologen angehört haben. Einige beschäftigen sich mehr mit Kommunikationsstilen (Bateson, Wynne), andere mehr mit der Familie als sozialem System (Lidz), andere wieder mit der Motivation pathogenen Elternverhaltens (Searles, Bowen, Vogel). Immer sind aber alle drei Aspekte, wenngleich mit verschiedenem Schwergewicht, miteinander verbunden. Das Kernstück des Buches ist die Batesonsche Lehre vom sogenannten ›double-bind‹ als Schizophrenie produzierendem Kommunikationsstil, was sich am ehesten mit ›Beziehungsfalle‹ oder ›Zwickmühlensituation‹ übersetzen läßt«. Erich Wulff
