The lure of Whitehead

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This volume addresses the sudden interest, across a range of disciplines, in Alfred North Whitehead's speculative philosophy. Among its fifteen contributions are essays on metaphysics, philosophy of science, digital art, sociology, computer software design, artificial life, and Whitehead's relation to both continental and analytical philosophy.

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Full title :The lure of Whitehead / Nicholas Gaskill and A.J. Nocek, editors.

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Publication Date:2014

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Publisher(s):University of Minnesota Press
Place of Publication:Minneapolis
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014

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Description:1 online resource (ix, 427 pages) : : illustrations

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ISBN:9781452943213, 1452943214, 9781452943206, 1452943206, 0816679967, 9780816679966, 0816679959, 9780816679959, 9781452948393, 1452948399
oclc:ocn893632524
LC Classification:B1674.W354
Dewey Decimal:192

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.