Whitehead's Metaphysics of Power

Reconstructing Modern Philosophy

Pierfrancesco Basile (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

160 Seiten

2017
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-0414-3 (ISBN)

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At the beginning of his magnum opus, Process and Reality (1929), Whitehead lists a series of beliefs which he thinks are widely held by contemporary philosophers. They are all condemned as dangerously mistaken.
What are these myths? Why are they rejected? In the works of which modern thinker did they arise? What precisely went wrong? At what stage in the development of Western thought did this happen?
By tackling these questions, Pierfrancesco Basile makes it possible to grasp the main concepts of Whitehead’s process metaphysics – especially the crucial notion that being and power are one and the same – and appreciate the complex way this is rooted in the modern philosophical tradition.

Pierfrancesco Basile is a lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Bern, Switzerland.

PrefaceAcknowledgementsAbbreviations

Part I. In Search of a New Metaphysics1. Introduction: Metaphysics, Science, Common Sense2. Speculative Metaphysics: Defining the Ideal

Part II. From Permanence to Process3. Deconstructing Tradition: Substance Revisited4. The Flowing Self: From Monads to Actual Occasions5. Overcoming the Cartesian Legacy: The Process Concept of Substance

Part III. From Process to Permanence6. Changing Shapes of Reality: Understanding Nature under a Social Analogy7. Theological Afterthoughts: A Neo-Platonic God for a Darwinian Universe?

8. Conclusion: The Ethics of Creativity - A Deweyan Critique

Appendix: The Making of a Metaphysician – a Biographical Note

BibliographyIndex

Erscheinungsdatum	19.03.2017
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	385 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
ISBN-10	1-4744-0414-6 / 1474404146
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-0414-3 / 9781474404143
Zustand	Neuware