Lure of Whitehead.
Title:
Lure of Whitehead.
Author:
Gaskill, Nicholas.
ISBN:
9781452943206
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (441 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- I. Speculation beyond the Bifurcation -- 1. A Constructivist Reading of Process and Reality -- 2. Scientism and the Modern World -- 3. What Is the Style of Matters of Concern -- 4. The Technics of Prehension -- II. The Metaphysics of Creativity -- 5. Whitehead's Involution of an Outside Chance -- 6. Multiplicity and Mysticism -- 7. The Event and the Occasion -- 8. Whitehead and Schools X, Y, and Z -- 9. Whitehead's Curse? -- 10. Cutting Away from Smooth Space -- III. Process Ecology -- 11. Possessive Subjects -- 12. Another Regard -- 13. Of "Experiential Togetherness -- 14. The Order of Nature and the Creation of Societies -- 15. Imaginative Chemistry -- Contributors -- Index.
Abstract:
Once largely ignored, the speculative philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead has assumed a new prominence in contemporary theory across the humanities and social sciences. Philosophers and artists, literary critics and social theorists, anthropologists and computer scientists have all embraced Whitehead's thought, extending it through inquiries into the nature of life, the problem of consciousness, and the ontology of objects, as well as into experiments in education and digital media.The Lure of Whitehead offers readers not only a comprehensive introduction to Whitehead's philosophy but also a demonstration of how his work advances our emerging understanding of life in the posthuman epoch. Contributors: Jeffrey A. Bell, Southeastern Louisiana U; Nathan Brown, U of California, Davis; Peter Canning; Didier Debaise, Free U of Brussels; Roland Faber, Claremont Lincoln U; Michael Halewood, U of Essex; Graham Harman, American U in Cairo; Bruno Latour, Sciences Po Paris; Erin Manning, Concordia U, Montreal; Steven Meyer, Washington U; Luciana Parisi, U of London; Keith Robinson, U of Arkansas at Little Rock; Isabelle Stengers, Free U of Brussels; James Williams, U of Dundee.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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