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The contribution of Angels Fear to metaReality: Gregory Bateson and Roy Bhaskar's idiosyncratic approaches to the sacred.
- Source :
- Journal of Critical Realism; Apr2024, Vol. 23 Issue 2, p224-236, 13p
- Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- Gregory Bateson's career from anthropologist, through his development of cybernetics and systems theory, to developing ideas around 'the sacred', has parallels with Roy Bhaskar's intellectual journey. This paper proposes that as well as Bateson's theory of cybernetics and systemic thought making a contribution to basic and dialectic critical realism, his final and posthumously published Angels Fear: Towards and Epistemology of the Sacred adds to our understanding of Bhaskar's metaReality. Similarities between the development of Bateson's work from 1936 to 1987 and Bhaskar's work from 1975 to 2016 enable the development of theory that adds to both of their respective appreciations of metaReality and the sacred. Thus, by starting a conversation between Bateson and Bhaskar, we can develop a higher order understanding of the world than proposed by Bhaskar's metaReality alone. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- CRITICAL realism
SYSTEMS theory
CYBERNETICS
ANTHROPOLOGISTS
DIALECTIC
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14767430
- Volume :
- 23
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Supplemental Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Critical Realism
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 177165140
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14767430.2024.2301716