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
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Symbolism.
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Philosophy.
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Essays.
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philosophy.
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essays.
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PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern.
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Essays
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Philosophy
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Symbolism
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Electronic book
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Author |
Faber, Roland, 1960- editor.
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Bell, Jeffrey A., editor
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Petek, Joseph, editor
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ISBN |
9781474429580 |
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1474429580 |
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9781474429597 |
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1474429599 |
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1474429564 |
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9781474429566 |
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