Propositions in the making : experiments in a Whiteheadian laboratory / edited by Roland Faber, Michael Halewood, and Andrew M. Davis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Faber, Roland, 1960- editor.

Halewood, Michael, editor.

Davis, Andrew, 1987- editor.

Series:

Contemporary Whitehead studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947.

Whitehead, Alfred North.

Assertion (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

xiii, 222 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2020]

Summary:

"Rather than a "logical assertion," Whitehead described a proposition as a "lure for feeling" for a collectivity to come. The unique contributions in Propositions in the Making articulate the newest reaches of Whiteheadian propositions for a postmodern world"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

For a Whiteheadian laboratory : how do you make yourself a proposition? / Erin Manning, Brian Massumi

Knowing Whitehead? / Michael Halewood

Space, time, and the deity of peace / Roland Faber

Designing propositions / A.J. Nocek

An internet of actual occasions : notes toward understanding twenty-first-century tendencies in media, communications, and world / Andrew Murphie

Thinking with Whitehead about existential risk / James Burton

Witness at the slaughterhouse : seeking conflicting propositions for alternate futures / Brianne Donaldson

Communities keep the dream alive as proposition? / Timothy Murphy

Geology not chronology : problems of naming in education / Matthew Gaulish

Under construction / Susanne Valerie [Granzer]

Choreographic propositions : grasping the environmental excess that feels like nothing, yet / Diego Gil.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Propositions in the making

ISBN:

9781793612564

1793612560

OCLC:

1120975807