Women in Political Thought

Why some ideas are picked up and developed and others lie fallow is a question insufficiently addressed by the sociology of knowledge. Gregory Bateson, in his book Steps to an Ecology of Mind, asks if there is some sort of natural selection that determines the survival of some ideas and the extinction of others. He does not go so far as to suggest that survival of the fittest is operative here (what would the fittest ideas be?) but this conception surely provokes one to ask why certa...