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Title Rethinking whitehead's symbolism : thought, language, culture / edited by Roland Faber, Jeffrey A. Bell and Joseph Petek
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 234 pages)
Contents Whitehead on causality and perception / Steven Shaviro -- Originary symbolism: Whitehead, Deleuze and the process view on perception / Keith Robinson -- United earth to the blue of heaven above: strange attractors in Whitehead's Symbolism / Roland Faber -- The inhumanity of symbolism / Michael Halewood -- Reverence, revision and creaturely life: Whitehead's political theology of enjoyment / Beatrice Marovich -- Ren and causal efficacy: Confucians Whitehead on the social role of symbolism / Hyo-Dong Lee -- Avoiding a fatal error: extending Whitehead's symbolism beyond language / Sheri D. Kling -- A dog's life: thought, symbols and concepts / Jeffrey Bell -- From manipulation to co-creation: Whitehead on the ethics of symbol-making / Luke B. Higgins -- On symbols, propositions and idiocies: towards a slow technoscience / A. J. Nocek -- Of symbolism: climate concreteness, causal efficacy and the Whiteheadian cosmopolis / Catherine Keller
Summary Annotation This collection of 11 essays by leading Whitehead scholars relates the themes of Whitehead's book to a range of contemporary discussions and debates, reinvigorating the relevance of Whitehead's philosophy. It also serves as a critical point of entry into Whitehead's more lengthy and complex work such as 'Process and Reality', and to his work as a whole
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947. Symbolism
Symbolism.
Philosophy.
Essays.
philosophy.
essays.
PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern.
Essays
Philosophy
Symbolism
Form Electronic book
Author Faber, Roland, 1960- editor.
Bell, Jeffrey A., editor
Petek, Joseph, editor
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