Gregory Bateson the Legacy of a Scientist

412 Pages·1982·35.46 MB·English

by  David Lipset

Gregory Bateson the legacy of a scient
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GREGORY
DATESON
The Legacy a
of Scientist

GREGORY
DATESON
The Legacy o
of Scientist
by David Lipser
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byGregory Bateson and Margaret Mead,
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1. Bateson, Gregory. 2.—Anthropologists Biography.
3. Psychologists Biography. I. Title.
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Contents
Preface pit
THE BATESONS OF ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE
1859-1922
I. Between Determinisms: Samuel Butler 3
A
II. Geneticists Ancestry 13
III. Early Genetics 28
A
IV. Didactic Family 42
V. Before the War 50
VI. Boarding School 60
VII. William and Martin Bateson 74
VIII. A Tear Is an Intellectual Thing 92
THE INVISIBLE SCIENTIST
1922-1979
IX. As Youngest Son in Cambridge 101
X. As Anthropologist 121
XI. Deus ex Machina: Cybernetics 160
XII. As Communications Theorist 184
XIII. As Ethologist 239
XIV. The Ecology ofMind 256
XV. As Man ofKnowledge 279
Appendix 303
Notes 306
Bibliography 338
Index 355
To My Parents, EBL and SML