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Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) was a prominent English mathematician and philosopher who co-authored the highly influential Principia Mathematica with Bertrand Russell. Originally published in 1922, this book forms the follow-up volume to "The Principles of Natural Knowledge" (1919) and "The Concept of Nature" (1920). In it, Whitehead puts forward an alternative theory of relativity, one which goes against the heterogeneity of Einstein's later theories in deducing that 'our experience requires and exhibits a basis in uniformity'. The text is divided into three parts - 'General...

»Bei diesem Buch handelt es sich um eine Studie über den Begriff der Zivilisation und um den Versuch zu verstehen, wie es zur Entstehung zivilisierter Wesen kommt.« A. N. Whitehead

Eine fundamentale Rolle spielen dabei Ideen: sie sind mit Emotionen und Zweckvorstellungen verbunden und stellen Antriebskräfte dar, die den Übergang von Gesellschaften und Kulturen bewirken. Dem Abenteuer dieser Ideen, ihrer Aufeinanderfolge und ihrem Kampf, widmet sich Whiteheads Buch, das einen ganz eigenen, spekulativen Beitrag zur Ideengeschichte darstellt.

Whitehead's master work in philsophy, Process and Reality propounds a system of speculative philosophy, known as process philosophy, in which the various elements of reality into a consistent relation to each other. It is also an exploration of some of the preeminent thinkers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, such as Descartes, Newton, Locke, and...

Whitehead's ten American essays in social philosophy are here reprinted in their original form, although not in chronological sequence. They have been rearranged to present first Whitehead's statement of general social principles and are followed by those essays in which he discusses problems of internal social reform and the factors which influence human societies. Next come those essays in which Whitehead is primarily concerned with international relations and last are the essays dealing specifically with educational problems.