Rethinking Whitehead's symbolism : Thought, Language, Culture / edited by Roland Faber, Jeffrey A. Bell and Joseph Petek.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Faber, Roland, 1960- editor.

Bell, Jeffrey A., editor.

Petek, Joseph, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947.

Whitehead, Alfred North.

Physical Description:

vi, 234 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2017.

Contents:

Part I Perception and Paradox

1 Whitehead on Causality and Perception p. 13 / Steven Shaviro

2 Originary Symbolism: Whitehead, Delcuze and the Process View on Perception p. 29 / Keith Robinson

3 Uniting Earth to the Blue of Heaven Above: Strange Attractors in Whitehead's Symbolism p. 56 / Roland Faber

Part II Adventures in Culture and Value

4 The Inhumanity of Symbolism p. 81 / Michael Halewood

5 Reverence, Revision and Creaturely Life: Whitehead's Political Theology of Enjoyment p. 96 / Beatrice Marovich

6 Ren and Causal Efficacy: Confucians and Whitehead on the Social Role of Symbolism p. 108 / Hyo-Dong Lee

7 Avoiding a Fatal Error: Extending Whitehead's Symbolism Beyond Language p. 124 / Sheri D. Kling

Part III Misplaced Concreteness in Ethics and Science

8 A Dog's Life: Thought, Symbols and Concepts p. 147 / Jeffrey Bell

9 From Manipulation to Co-creation: Whitehead on the Ethics of Symbol Making p. 170 / Luke B. Higgins

10 On Symbols, Propositions and Idiocies: Towards a Slow Technoscience p. 186 / A. J. Nocek

11 Of Symbolism: Climate Concreteness, Causal Efficacy and the Whiteheadian Cosmopolis p. 208 / Catherine Keller.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781474429566

1474429564

OCLC:

986237069