Rethinking Whitehead s Symbolism: Thought, Language, Culture

ISBN-13: 9781474429566 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 280 str.

Roland Faber;Jeffrey A. Bell

Opis

11 essays by leading Whitehead scholars re-examinae Whitehead s Barbour-Page lectures, published as the book Symbolism: Its Meaning and Effect in 1927, to give you exciting insights into the contemporary implications of Whitehead's symbolism in an era of new scientific, cultural and technological developments.

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Notes on the Contributors; Abbreviations; Introduction, Joseph Petek; Part I: Perception and Paradox; 1. Whitehead on Causality and Perception, Steven Shaviro; 2. Originary Symbolism: Whitehead, Deleuze, and the Process View on Perception, Keith Robinson; 3. Uniting Earth to the Blue of Heaven Above: Strange Attractors in Whitehead's Symbolism; Roland Faber; Part II: Adventures in Culture and Value; 4. The Inhumanity of Symbolism, Michael Halewood; 5. Reverence, Revision, and Creaturely Life: Whitehead’s Political Theology of Enjoyment, Beatrice Marovich; 6. Ren and Causal Efficacy: Confucians and Whitehead on the Social Role of Symbolism, Hyo-Dong Lee; 7. Avoiding a Fatal Error: Extending Whitehead's Symbolism Beyond Language, Sheri Kling; Part III: Misplaced Concreteness in Ethics and Science; 8. A Dog’s Life: Thought, Symbols, and Concepts, Jeffrey Bell; 9. From Manipulation to Co-Creation: Whitehead on the Ethics of Symbol Creation; Luke Higgins; 10. On Symbols, Propositions, and Idiocies: Toward a Slow Technoscience; Adam Nocek; 11. Of Symbolism: Climate Concreteness, Causal Efficacy, and the Whiteheadian Cosmopolis, Catherine Keller; Notes on the Contributors, Index.