Process, Reality, and the Power of Symbols: Thinking with A.N. Whitehead
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Hardback. Takes up the principal challenge facing a natural philosopher who wishes to engage with Nature while rescuing both life and thought from materialistic approaches. This book proffers a remedy for the pervasive nihilism of 'the moderns' which illustrates suggestion that philosophy should be imaged as a dynamic collage that is forever in the making. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 422.
Following A. N. Whitehead, this book takes up the principal challenge facing a natural philosopher who wishes to engage with Nature while rescuing both Life and Thought from materialistic approaches which rob them of their 'quicknesses'. Selecting certain insights and intuitions from the writings of Peirce, Coleridge, Deleuze and Nietzsche, the author proffers a remedy for the pervasive nihilism of 'the moderns' which illustrates Deleuze's suggestion that philosophy should be imaged as a dynamic collage that is forever in the making.
Following A. N. Whitehead, this book takes up the principal challenge facing a natural philosopher who wishes to engage with Nature while rescuing both Life and Thought from materialistic approaches which rob them of their 'quicknesses'. Selecting certain insights and intuitions from the writings of Peirce, Coleridge, Deleuze and Nietzsche, the author proffers a remedy for the pervasive nihilism of 'the moderns' which illustrates Deleuze's suggestion that philosophy should be imaged as a dynamic collage that is forever in the making.
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Weight
422g
Number of Pages
244
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230527409
SKU
V9780230527409
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About M. Code
MURRAY CODE who taught mathematics at the University of Guelph, Canada, has argued for the importance of A. N. Whitehead's views on logic, mathematics, philosophy of science, and metaphysics in two previous books: Order and Organism: Steps to a Whiteheadian Philosophy of Mathematics and the Natural Sciences (1985); and Myths of Reason: Vagueness, Rationality, and the Lure of Logic (1995). ... Read more
Reviews for Process, Reality, and the Power of Symbols: Thinking with A.N. Whitehead
1 One of a new generation of works which fuse Deleuze with Whitehead