Gregory Batesons Ecology of Mind The Course (Paperback)

Paperback. Gregory Batesons legendary UCSC lectures on ecology of mind are brought together in print for the first time in this unique volume.Based on newly transcribed recordings from the 1970s, this book follows Bateson as he explores pattern, communication and relationship across biology, language, culture and politics. Moving between blackboard diagrams, classroom exercises and wide-ranging stories, he invites students to see life as a web of interconnected systems.In these vivid, improvisational lectures, Gregory Bateson invites his students to look again at the patterns that make life possible from the growth of plants and the development of embryos to the rituals of churches, classrooms and nation states. He treats grammar, evolution and everyday conversation as part of one unfolding study of mind in nature.The book lets you sit in his classroom: listening as Bateson puzzles aloud, challenges his audience and slowly assembles a way of thinking that is equal to a complex, damaged world. In 1976, Gregory Bateson taught anexperimental course at UC Santa Cruz. It encapsulated his workon ecology of mind. Transcribed here, they show him posing questions, setting exercises, and drawingconnections between frogs eggs, grammar, family systems, religion andecological crisis. An intimate, accessible way intoBatesons thinking. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…