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Article: A Recursive Vision: Ecological Understanding and Gregory Bateson.
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- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
- Article date:
- March 1, 1997
- Author:
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This brief review cannot possibly do justice to Harries-Jones's presentation of the development of Gregory Bateson's theories of ecological epistemology. It is a clear, carefully (and economically) written book. The author's strategy of presentation is that of a sequence of theoretical problems that Bateson had to solve, each solution leading to new questions and solutions, whose limitations pose the next set of questions, etc, to the ultimate issue of unity in a recursive universe. These are difficult ideas to fathom, no less to synthesize and explain. The author does all this with superb craftsmanship, producing a progression of argumentation that is so tight that it ...
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