Upside-Down Gods - Gregory Bateson''s World of Difference

Human survival requires a reorientation of science away from its exclusive technical and materialist premises focused on control, towards feedback and relational processes of organism-plus-environment. Gregory Bateson's holistic approach unites culture, communication, psychology, biology and ecology within a single trans-disciplinary enquiry substituting pattern, perceptual difference, and relations for 'thinginess' of scientific data.

About the author

Peter Harries-Jones is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at York University. He is the author of A Recursive Vision: Ecological Understanding and Gregory Bateson (Toronto).

Product details

• Authors: Peter Harries-Jones
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2016
• EAN: 9780823270354
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-7035-4
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Meaning Systems (Fup); Meaning Systems; Meaning Systems
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies