Creativity and Its Discontents: The Response to Whitehead's Process and Reality

ISBN-13: 9783110327465 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 250 str.

Alan Van Wyk;Michel Weber

Opis

"I do not expect a good reception from professional philosophers" wrote Whitehead in 1929, immediately after the publication of Process and Reality. Indeed, it took nearly thirty years before scholars seriously started to try to decipher the book taken as a whole. And there remains today "professional" Whiteheadians who claim that this work can - or even should - be bracketed by anyone wishing to get a clear picture of Whitehead's true speculative agenda. Creativity and Its Discontents aims to provide evidence of the conditions for this state of affairs by gathering and contextualizing all the major reviews (translated where need be) of Process and Reality: its original 1929 edition, its various translations (some of them still ongoing) and its 1978 corrected edition. It is designed as the ideal tool to accompany the recently published Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought.

O autorze

Michel Weber is one of the most distinguished European philosophers in the area of process philosophy in the tradition of Alfred North Whitehead. He university professor at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, editor of the series Chromatiques whiteheadiennes, and the series Process Thought (both published by ontos verlag) and the organizer of the annual Whitehead conferences in Paris (France) and Louvain (Belgium).