Nature as event : the lure of the possible / Didier Debaise ; translated by Michael Halewood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Debaise, Didier, author.

Series:

Thought in the act.

Thought in the act

Standardized Title:

Appât des possibles. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947.

Whitehead, Alfred North.

Philosophy of nature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (113 pages)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.

Summary:

We have entered a new era of nature. What remains of the frontiers of modern thought that divided the living from the inert, subjectivity from objectivity, the apparent from the real, value from fact, and the human from the nonhuman? Can the great oppositions that presided over the modern invention of nature still claim any cogency? In Nature as Event, Didier Debaise shows how new narratives and cosmologies are necessary to rearticulate that which until now had been separated. Following William James and Alfred North Whitehead, Debaise presents a pluralistic approach to nature. What would happen if we attributed subjectivity and potential to all beings, human and nonhuman? Why should we not consider aesthetics and affect as the fabric that binds all existence? And what if the senses of importance and value were no longer understood to be exclusively limited to the human?

Contents:

The cosmology of the moderns

A universal mannerism

The intensification of experience.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 99-101) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822372424

0822372428

OCLC:

1139374506