The Mind of Whitehead

Adventure in Ideas
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-0-227-17997-0
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 744 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 1373 g

Reihe: James Clarke

The Mind of Whitehead offers the curious reader a creative exploration of a crucial twentieth-century philosopher, speaking to global concerns from a position of possibility and complexity.

For Alfred North Whitehead, the fundamental basis of reality is connectivity; the possibility, interdependence and actualisation that defy our human desire for structure, categorisation and division. In this spirit, Professor Roland Faber combines the disparate interests of Whitehead's study - from Mathematics to Divinity, Political Philosophy to Cosmology - to trace the thematic similarities of this work, and establish their unity in the 'mind' of Whitehead. Focussing on the experience of reading Whitehead's rich text, Faber invites the reader not to search for fixed patterns but to explore the impermanence and diversity of Whitehead's ideas.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Faber, Roland

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Abbreviations
Prologue: The Event of Whitehead

PART I: The Togetherness of Everything
Chapter 1: Experience
Chapter 2: Becoming
Chapter 3: Symbolization
Chapter 4: Cognition

PART II: The Tree of Knowledge
Chapter 5: Mathematics
Chapter 6: Science
Chapter 7: Poetics
Chapter 8: Philosophy
Chapter 9: Religion

PART III: Faces of the Deep
Chapter 10: Multiplicity
Chapter 11: Creativity
Chapter 12: Reason
Chapter 13: Mystery
Intermezzo: Whitehead's Divine Comedy

PART IV: The Tree of Life
Chapter 14: Body
Chapter 15: Soul
Chapter 16: Mind
Chapter 17: God
Chapter 18: Mutuality

PART V: In the Womb of Nature
Chapter 19: Nature
Chapter 20: Society
Chapter 21: Culture
Chapter 22: Civilization

PART VI: Universals of the Universe
Chapter 23:Life
Chapter 24: Environment
Chapter 25: Evolution
Chapter 26: Cosmos
Chapter 27: Continuum

Epilogue: A Final (and Personal) Note

Bibliography
Index