Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id TAA18416 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-bounces@mmu.ac.uk); Fri, 31 Aug 2001 19:05:51 +0100 X-Originating-IP: [209.240.220.175] From: "Scott Chase" <ecphoric@hotmail.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: thanx to TJ Olney Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 14:03:21 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: <F102Q9BZ7gZf5MfamQF000043b5@hotmail.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 31 Aug 2001 18:03:21.0681 (UTC) FILETIME=[389AA410:01C13247] Sender: fmb-bounces@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
I'd like to thank T.J. Olney for sparking my interest in Gregory Bateson.
His enormous compilation _Steps to an Ecology of Mind_ (1987. Jason Aronson
Inc. New Jersey) has been lengthy, difficult to comprehend in parts, but
still fascinating. I kinda like his take on Jung's pleroma / creatura
distinction stemming from J.'s epistemological crisis (aka creative illness)
and the way it allied with Kant's phenomenal / noumenal distinction. I'll
probably not look at the opaque *Septem Sermones ad Mortuos* the same again.
I'm just starting Adam Kuper's _The Chosen Primate_ (1994. Harvard
University Press. Cambridge, Massacusetts). Some of you may be familiar with
Kuper's contribution "If memes are the answer, what is the question?" in the
recent compilation _Darwinizing Culture_ (2000. Oxford University Press.
Oxford. edited by Robert Aunger).
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