Beyond Whitehead
Recent Advances in Process Thought
Contributions by Herman Greene, Karl-Friedrich Kiesow, Helmut Maaßen, Zsofi Frei, Yuzo Yamaura, Anderson Weekes, Vesselin Petrov, Maria-Teresa Teixeira, Jakub Dziadkowiec, Lukasz Lamza, Mathias Hassenfratz-Coffinet, Maria Regina Brioschi Edited by Jakub Dziadkowiec, Lukasz Lamza
Publication date:
29 August 2017Length of book:
168 pagesPublisher
Lexington BooksISBN-13: 9781498554688
As with any rich philosophical tradition in a period of intensive growth, process philosophy may seem confusing to the uninitiated, or even to the initiated. There is simply so much going on that one may, so to speak, lose the forest for the trees. The purpose of this book is to organize and arrange selected examples of contemporary work in process philosophy, with opening commentaries by leading Whiteheadian scholars, to give the reader a taste of the global vision of process currently expressed within this field of philosophy.
This book is split into two parts: the first discussing the historical roots of and future perspectives for basic concepts of process thinking, and the second presenting original contemporary work in extending and re-interpreting the basic metaphysical structure of process.
This book is split into two parts: the first discussing the historical roots of and future perspectives for basic concepts of process thinking, and the second presenting original contemporary work in extending and re-interpreting the basic metaphysical structure of process.
The meaning and significance of Whitehead springs from his amazing capacity to take into account past philosophical and scientific adventures of ideas and to actualize them. At a time of major, even dramatic, ethical challenges and ideological uncertainties, this is precisely what this remarkable collection of essays brings about. To paraphrase Huxley (The Perennial Philosophy, 1947), Whitehead’s legacy is the plummet and Whitheadian scholarship the astrolabe of this book, that aims at a nothing less than a second Renaissance.