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Gregory Bateson is well known, among those with the perseverance to wrestle through his very compact prose, for his highly original synthesis . This book is the end result of that collaboration, which Mary completed in 1986.

Gregory Bateson is well known, among those with the perseverance to wrestle through his very compact prose, for his highly original synthesis of cybernetics, biology, anthropology and - above all - epistemology. Near the end of his one book written with a general audience in mind (Mind and Nature), he mentions his intention to continue his explorations into the realms of the sacred and the aesthetic.

Gregory Bateson (9 May 1904 – 4 July 1980) was an English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields.

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

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. This book incorporates writing by both father and daughter, including essays written by Gregory in the last years before his death. There are also gues-written since then by Mary Catherine to convey the way the two might have worked together to forge the essays into a single work.

Mary Catherine Bateson (born December 8, 1939) is an American writer and cultural anthropologist. A graduate of the Brearley School, Bateson is the daughter of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. Bateson is a noted author in her field with many published monographs. Among her books is With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, a recounting of her upbringing by two famous parents. She has taught at Harvard, Amherst, and George Mason University, among others.

Bateson, Gregory; Bateson, Mary Catherine.

Gregory Bateson spent a bunch of time as a resident at Esalen, and the first 30 pages or so of the book are new-age-y enough that you might be tempted to put it. .Angels Fear immediately called to mind two other books for me.

Gregory Bateson spent a bunch of time as a resident at Esalen, and the first 30 pages or so of the book are new-age-y enough that you might be tempted to put it down pretty quickly, but the majority of the book is quite worthwhile if you’re interested in any of these sundry topics (and especially if you’re interested. in the intersection of these, cross disciplinary thinking).

Here is the long-awaited final work of one of the twentieth century's greatest thinkers. In this groundbreaking book, Gregory Bateson and his daughter, the eminent anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson, offer a radically new theory of science, supernaturalism and the sacred - and their relationship with the biological world.

Ms Difficult reading, not for browsers; but Bateson-philes and those who hunger for the sacred will find here challenging food for thought.

Bateson states that this book, in progress when her father died, represents a radical step in his thought, a deliberate attempt to yoke the unity of nature affirmed in Mind and Nature with his new understanding of the sacred. As such, she conscientiously demarcates with initials or brackets her own material from her father's. Difficult reading, not for browsers; but Bateson-philes and those who hunger for the sacred will find here challenging food for thought.

The Logic of the Sacred in Bateson and Peirce. Deborah Eicher-Catt - 2003 - American Journal of Semiotics 19 (1/4):95-126. Gregory R. Markowski - 1987 - Tradition and Discovery 15 (2):26-27. Religion: From Place to Placelessness. Yi-fu Tuan - 2009 - the University of Chicago Press. Boghossian’s Fear of Knowledge. Ernest Sosa - 2008 - Philosophical Studies 141 (3):399 - 407. Fear of Knowledge. Paul Boghossian - 2008 - Philosophical Studies 141 (3):391-398. Epistemic Relativism.

Angels Fear: Towards and Epistemology of the Sacred Gregory Bateson Mary Catherine Bateson Bantam . In 1978, my father, Gregory Bateson, completed the book titled Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity (Dutton, 1979).

Angels Fear: Towards and Epistemology of the Sacred Gregory Bateson Mary Catherine Bateson Bantam Books, November 1987 This book is for LOIS BATESON And BARKEV KASSARJIAN Without them we would not have been ourselves. Full fathom five thy father lies, Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Under the threat of imminent death from cancer, he had called me from Tehran to California so we could work on it together.