Angels Fear: Towards An Epistemology Of The Sacred

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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 conversations-Metalogues-written since then by Mary Catherine to convey the way the two might have worked together to forge the essays into a 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 neigher mechanistic nor supernatural Acknowledgments XI I Introduction (MCB & GB) II The World of Mental Process (GB) 16 III Metalogue: Why Do You Tell Stories? (Mcp) 31 IV The Model (GB) 36 V Neither Supernatural nor Mechanical (GB) 50 VI Metalogue: Why Placebos? (MCB) 65 VII Let Not Thy Left Hand Know (GB) 69 VIII Metalogue: Secrets (MCB) 82 IX Defenses of Faith (GB) 88 Metalogue: Are You Creeping Up? (MCB) 100 XI The Messages of Nature and Nurture (GB) 110 XII Metalogue: Addiction (MCB & GB) 125 XIII The Unmocked God (GB) 135 XIV Metalogue: It's Not Here (MCB) 145 XV The Structure in the Fabric (GB) 15] XVI Innocence and Experience (GB & MCB) 167 XVI So What's a Meta For? (MCB) 183 XVIII Metalogue: Persistent Shade (MCB) 201 Glossary 206 Notes on Chapter Sources 213 Index 216