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Klappentext Gregory Bateson's work continues to touch others in fields as diverse as communication, ecology, anthropology, philosophy, family therapy, education, and mental/spiritual health. The authors in this special issue of Cybernetics & Human Knowing celebrate the Bateson Centennial. Zusammenfassung Gregory Bateson's work continues to touch others in fields as diverse as communication, ecology, anthropology, philosophy, family therapy, education, and mental/spiritual health. The authors in this special issue of Cybernetics & Human Knowing celebrate the Bateson Centennial. Inhaltsverzeichnis Frederick Steier and Jane Jorgenson: Foreword: Patterns That Connect Patterns That Connect Mary Catherine Bateson: The Double Bind: Pathology and Creativity Will McWhinney: The White Horse: A Reformulation of Bateson's Typology of Learning Frederick Steier: Exercising Frame Flexibility Thomas Hylland Eriksen: Mind the Gap: Flexibility! Epistemology and the Rhetoric of New Work Peter Harries-Jones: Understanding Ecological Aesthetics: The Challenge Of Bateson Bradford Keeney: Circular Epistemology and the Bushman Shamans: A Kalahari Challenge to the Hegemony of Narrative Douglas Flemons: May the Pattern be With You Thomas E. Malloy! Carmen Bostic St. Clair! and John Grinder: Steps to an Ecology of Emergence Kenneth N. Cissna and Rob Anderson: A Failed Dialogue? The 1975 Meeting of Gregory Bateson and Carl Rogers Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz: The Natural History Approach: A Bateson Legacy Alfonso Montuori: Gregory Bateson and the Promise of Transdisciplinarity Louis H. Kauffman: Virtual Logic -- The One and the Many Peter Harries-Jones: Gregory Bateson! Heterarchies! and the Topology of Recursion Book Reviews and Announcements