Alfred North Whitehead The Man and His Work: 1910-1947 / Volume 2 1910-1947/ Victor Lowe; edited by J.B. Schneewind. Volume 2 1910-1947/

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lowe, Victor, 1907-1988, author.

Contributor:

Schneewind, J. B. (Jerome B.), 1930-2024.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophers.

Mathematicians.

Mathematicians--England--Biography.

Philosophers--England--Biography.

England.

Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource (xi, 389 pages) :) portrait

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Johns Hopkins University Press

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Originally published in 1990. The second volume of Victor Lowe's definitive work on Alfred North Whitehead completes the biography of one of the twentieth century's most influential yet least understood philosophers. In 1910 Whitehead abruptly ended his thirty-year association with Trinity College of Cambridge and moved to London. The intellectual and personal restlessness that precipitated this move ultimately led Whitehead—at the age of sixty-three—to settle in America and change the focus of his work from mathematics to philosophy. Volume 2 of Alfred North Whitehead: The Man and His Work follows Whitehead's journey to the United States and analyzes his expanding intellectual life. Although Whitehead wrote philosophy based on natural science while still in London, he began his most important work shortly after moving to Harvard in 1924. Science and the Modern World appeared in 1925, Religion in the Making in 1926, Symbolism in 1927, and Process and Reality in 1929. Discussing these and other important works, Lowe combines scholarly analysis with valuable insights gathered from Whitehead's friends and colleagues. Although Whitehead ordered that all his private papers be destroyed, Lowe was given access to letters the philosopher wrote to his son, North, and others. Never before published, the letters add a new personal dimension to Whitehead's life and thought. Photographs of the philosopher, his family, and associates provide an intimate look at a private and self-effacing man whose work has had a lasting impact on twentieth-century thought.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Contents

Preface

I. Whitehead's First Years in London

II. 1914-1918

III. Whitehead on Education

IV. Last Years in England

V. First Philosophical Publications

VI. "Pan-Physics": Whitehead's Philosophy of Natural Science, 1918-1922

VII. Migration to Harvard

VIII. A New Philosophy of Nature

IX. Religion

X. The Atypical English Philosopher

XI. Gifford Lecturer

XII. Fame

XIII. Whitehead's Philosophy as I See It

Appendix A: The Second Edition of Principia Mathematica

Appendix B: Letters from Alfred North Whitehead, August 20, 1924−August 12, 1929

Appendix C: Letter to Charles Hartshorne

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Originally published as Johns Hopkins Press in 1990

The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License

Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.

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ISBN:

0-8018-3960-2

1-4214-3420-2

OCLC:

1137748534