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Description
As with any rich philosophical tradition in a period of intensive growth, process philosophy may seem confusing to the uninitiated, or even to the initiated. There is simply so much going on that one may, so to speak, lose the forest for the trees. The purpose of this book is to organize and arrange selected examples of contemporary work in process philosophy, with opening commentaries by leading Whiteheadian scholars, to give the reader a taste of the global vision of process currently expressed within this field of philosophy.
This book is split into two parts: the first discussing the historical roots of and future perspectives for basic concepts of process thinking, and the second presenting original contemporary work in extending and re-interpreting the basic metaphysical structure of process.
Table of Contents
Part I: Inspirations and Perspectives (Introduction by Helmut Maaßen)
Chapter 1: Herman Greene, The Whiteheadian Century
Chapter 2: Karl-Friedrich Kiesow, Golden Mean, Golden Rule, Golden Section
Chapter 3: Helmut Maaßen, Critique of Religious Dogmatism
Chapter 4: Zsofi Frei, Synchronising the Timaeus
Chapter 5: Yuzo Yamaura, Being is Power
Chapter 6: Anderson Weekes, Acknowledging Ralph Pred
Part II: Revisions and Challenges (Introduction by Lukasz Lamza)
Chapter 7: Vesselin Petrov, Constructive Postmodernism as Dynamic Holism
Chapter 8: Maria-Teresa Teixeira, Process, Levels of Reality and Evolution
Chapter 9: Jakub Dziadkowiec, Stratalism
Chapter 10: Mathias Hassenfratz-Coffinet, The Unity of Nexus
Chapter 11: Maria Regina Brioschi, Between Continuity and Atomism
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Product details
| Published | 29 Aug 2017 |
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| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 168 |
| ISBN | 9781498554695 |
| Imprint | Lexington Books |
| Illustrations | 2 b/w illustrations; |
| Series | Contemporary Whitehead Studies |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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The meaning and significance of Whitehead springs from his amazing capacity to take into account past philosophical and scientific adventures of ideas and to actualize them. At a time of major, even dramatic, ethical challenges and ideological uncertainties, this is precisely what this remarkable collection of essays brings about. To paraphrase Huxley (The Perennial Philosophy, 1947), Whitehead’s legacy is the plummet and Whitheadian scholarship the astrolabe of this book, that aims at a nothing less than a second Renaissance.
Michel Weber, Director of the Centre for Philosophical Practice, Brussels
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