Process, Reality, and the Power of Symbols: Thinking with A.N. Whitehead

by M. Code

Overview

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

ISBN-13:	9780230527409
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	06/28/2007
Edition description:	2007
Pages:	244
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

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).

Table of Contents

Science and the Appropriation of Reality Signs, Symbols and Metaphysical Imaginaries Minding, Imaging and Symbolizing A Nearly Comprehensive Naturalism In Search of a 'True Naturalism' Putting Life Back into Nature On Learning Good Sense Against 'Conceptual Idolatry' Epilogue: Notes for a Cultural Therapy

Editorial Reviews

1 One of a new generation of works which fuse Deleuze with Whitehead

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