Bateson Gregory 1904 1980 Mary Catherine (2 results)

Hardcover. Octavo; G/VG; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine, green with brown print; DJ is clean and bright; Boards quarter bound with brown cloth to spine and green paper to boards, slight toning to top edge, else clean and strong; Text block has spotting to top edge, else clean and tight; xii, 224 pages. 1350964. FP New Rockville Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This is "Angels Fear : Towards an Epistemology of the Sacred" by Gregory Bateson & Mary Catherine Bateson (his daughter). The book was published in 1987 by Macmillan in New York. It is the First Edition. From the dust-jacket write-up : "here is the final, sustained thinking of the great Gregory Bateson. In collaboration with his daughter, we have set out before us Bateson's natural history of the relationship between ideas. Bateson, one of the most influential and original thinkers f the twentieth century, spent his life exploring the nature of the mental process and its connection with the biological world. His search to find 'the pattern which connects' all living things culminated in the writing he did for this book, which incorporates writing by both father and daughter, including essays written by Gregory in the last years before his death. There are also conversations -'Metalogues' - written since then by Mary Catherine to convey the way the two might have worked together to forge the essays into single work 'Angels Fear' is a unique demonstration of thinking in progress, playful and wide-ranging : an attempt by the Batesons to find a view of the mind and the universe that is neither mechanistic nor supernatural." **************************************** CHAPTERS : Introduction / The World of Mental Process / Metalogue: Why Do You Tell Stories? / The Model / Neither Supernatural nor Mechanical / Metalogue : Why Placebos? / Let Not Thy Left HAnd Know / Metalogue : Secrets / Defenses of Faith / Metalogue : Are You Creeping Up? / The Message of Nature and Nurture / Metalogue : Addiction / The Unmocked God / Metalogue : It's Not Here / The Structure in the Fabric / Innocence and Experience / So What's a Meta For ? / Metalogue : Persistent Shade ***************************************** TITLE : Angels Fear : Towards an Epistemology of the Sacred / AUTHOR : Gregory Bateson (1904 - 1980) and Mary Catherine Bateson / IMPRINT : Macmillan Publishing Company / PLACE : New York / DATE : (1987) / EDITION : First Edition (with number line to that effect) / STATUS ; Hardcover OP / DETAILS : Trade hardcover; Contains a Glossary, Notes onSources, and an Index; [xiv] + 224 pages; 6 1/8" x 9 1/8'; quarter-bound, light maroon cloth-covered spine and beige paper covered boards. silver gilt lettering on spine. Pictorial dust-jacket. there is a photograph of Bateson and his daughter on the rear panel. the front panel of the jacket has a portion of William Blake's picture from "Night Thoughts". CONDITION -- VERY GOOD -- This is a previously owned book that remains clean and attractive, with but near-negligible signs of handling. (minor signs of use on the text-block edges; the front board has a slight yawn at the fore-edge, else all is clean. Binding is solid and there is no marking to the interior. Slight wear to jacket's edges.).