Runaway: Gregory Bateson, the Double Bind, and the Rise of Ecological Consciousness

by Anthony Chaney

Book Overview

The anthropologist Gregory Bateson has been called a lost giant of twentieth-century thought. In the years following World War II, Bateson was among the group of mathematicians, engineers, and social scientists who laid the theoretical foundations of the information age. In Palo Alto in 1956, he introduced the double-bind theory of schizophrenia. By the sixties, he was in Hawaii studying dolphin communication. Bateson's discipline hopping made established...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 146966867X
• ISBN13: 9781469668673
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"