Creativity and its discontents : the response to Whitehead's Process and reality / Alan Van Wyk and Michel Weber (eds).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wyk, Alan.

Weber, Michel.

Series:

Process Thought

Process thought ; v. 9

Process Thought ; 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947. Process and reality.

Whitehead, Alfred North.

Cosmology.

Process philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (253 p.)

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt : Ontos Verlag, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""I do not expect a good reception from professional philosophers"" wrote Whitehead in 1929, immediately after the publication of Process and Reality. Indeed, it took nearly thirty years before scholars seriously started to try to decipher the book taken as a whole. And there remains today ""professional"" Whiteheadians who claim that this work can - or even should - be bracketed by anyone wishing to get a clear picture of Whitehead's true speculative agenda. Creativity and Its Discontents aims to provide evidence of the conditions for this state of affairs by gathering and contextualizing all

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

1. Cup And Macmillan Editions, 1929

2. Macmillan Reprint, 1960

3. Free Press Corrected Edition, 1978

4. Translations

5. Bibliographies

Index

Table Of Contents

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3-86838-018-3

3-11-032785-6

OCLC:

851970815