Research Catalog

Title

Angels fear : towards an epistemology of the sacred / Gregory Bateson, Mary Catherine Bateson.

Author

Bateson, Gregory, 1904-1980

Publication

Cresskill, N.J. : Hampton Press, c2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

Bateson, Mary Catherine

Description

xii, 224 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Angels Fear is the final sustained thinking of the great Gregory Bateson, written in collaboration with his anthropologist daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson. Here we have set out before us Bateson's natural history of the relationship between ideas. Gregory Bateson, one of the most influential and original thinkers of the 20th century, spent his life (he died in 1980 before completing this book) exploring the nature of mental process and its connection with the biological world. His search to fine "the pattern which connects all living things culminated in the writing he did for Angels Fear." "The book incorporates writing by both father and daughter, including essays written by Gregory in the last years before his death."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Advances in systems theory, complexity, and the human sciences

Uniform Title

Advances in systems theory, complexity, and the human sciences

Subject

• Philosophy
• Anthropology
• Knowledge, Theory of
• Religion

Note

• Originally published: New York : Macmillan, c1987.
• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

I. Introduction / Mary Catherine Bateson and Gregory Bateson -- II. The world of mental process / Gregory Bateson -- III. Metalogue : why do you tell stories? / Mary Catherine Bateson -- IV. The model / Gregory Bateson -- V. Neither supernatural nor mechanical / Gregory Bateson -- VI. Metalogue : why placebos? / Mary Catherine Bateson -- VII. Let not thy left hand know / Gregory Bateson -- VIII. Metalogue : secrets / Mary Catherine Bateson -- IX. Defenses of faith / Gregory Bateson -- X. Metalogue : are you creeping up? / Mary Catherine Bateson -- XI. The messages of nature and nurture / Gregory Bateson -- XII. Metalogue : addiction / Mary Catherine Bateson and Gregory Bateson -- XII. The unmocked God / Gregory Bateson -- XIV. Metalogue : it's not here / Mary Catherine Bateson -- XV. The structure in the fabric / Gregory Bateson -- XVI. Innocence and experience / Gregory Batson and Mary Catherine Bateson -- XVII. So what's a meta for? / Mary Catherine Bateson -- XVIII. Metalogue : persistent shade / Mary Catherine Bateson.

ISBN

1572735945

LCCN

2004060606^^

OCLC

• 56922423
• SCSB-11037247

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library