Gregory Bateson: The Legacy of a Scientist FIRST EDITION
Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1980.
First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xii, 360pp. Wear to unclipped dust jacket with rubbing, toning, and creasing to covers, corners, and edges. Mild rubbing and toning to covers and edges of brown cloth over boards. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Previous owner's stamp to front free endpaper. Light toning to endpapers. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound.
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
This authorized biography of distinguished anthropologist and social scientist Gregory Bateson is a remarkable journey into the intellectual evolution of one of the twentieth century's most brilliant human scientists. Bateson, who is best known for his development of the double bind theory of schizophrenia, has conducted breakthrough work in a number of fields in addition to anthropology, has influenced such diverse figures as R.D. Laing, Erving Goffman, and Konrad Lorenz, and has shaped the direction of thought in many of the human sciences.(Publisher). Good / good. Item #12188
ISBN: 0133650561
Price: $15.00