The Syntax of Life: Gregory Bateson and the “Platonic View”
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The essay follows the fil rouge of ancient Greek thinking in the work of Gregory Bateson, an unusually multi-faceted and energetically nomadic intellect in the landscape of twentieth-century hyper-specialized disciplines, whose eclectic research focused on the question of life and of human participation in a living world. Through the reverberation of Neoplatonic motifs and echoing pre-Socratic intuitions, Bateson reflects on the “pattern which connects”—the λόγος that says one and all things, and the interpenetration of one and all things, thus operating as the connective tissue of all that is, the communicational web of contacts, exchanges, and transmissions, perhaps the nervous system of life.
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In Gregory Bateson, Steps to an Ecology of Mind (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2000), 433; hereafter abbreviated as SEM and referenced parenthetically. The volume (with the subtitle Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology) was first published in 1972 by Chandler Publishing Company, San Francisco.
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Hermann Diels and Walther Kranz, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker (Berlin: Weidmann, 1952), 50; hereafter cited as DK.
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The Syntax of Life: Gregory Bateson and the “Platonic View”
In: Research in PhenomenologySearch for other papers by Claudia Baracchi in
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The essay follows the fil rouge of ancient Greek thinking in the work of Gregory Bateson, an unusually multi-faceted and energetically nomadic intellect in the landscape of twentieth-century hyper-specialized disciplines, whose eclectic research focused on the question of life and of human participation in a living world. Through the reverberation of Neoplatonic motifs and echoing pre-Socratic intuitions, Bateson reflects on the “pattern which connects”—the λόγος that says one and all things, and the interpenetration of one and all things, thus operating as the connective tissue of all that is, the communicational web of contacts, exchanges, and transmissions, perhaps the nervous system of life.
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