Rethinking Whitehead’s Symbolism

Thought, Language, Culture

Roland Faber, Jeffrey A. Bell, Joseph Petek (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

248 Seiten

2017
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-2956-6 (ISBN)

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11 essays by leading Whitehead scholars re-examinae Whitehead’s Barbour-Page lectures, published as the book Symbolism: Its Meaning and Effect in 1927, to give you exciting insights into the contemporary implications of Whitehead's symbolism in an era of new scientific, cultural and technological developments.

This collection of 11 essays form a new examination of Whitehead’s Barbour-Page lectures, which were published as the book Symbolism: Its Meaning and Effect in 1927. Leading Whitehead scholars give you exciting insights into the contemporary implications of Whitehead's symbolism in an era of new scientific, cultural and technological developments. As a result, Whitehead's philosophy is reinvigorated in the context of contemporary discussions and debates.
This volume also serves as a critical point of entry into Whitehead’s more lengthy and complex work such as Process and Reality, and to his body of work as a whole.

Roland Faber is the Kilsby Family/John B. Cobb Jr Professor of Process Studies at Claremont School of Theology and Founder of the Whitehead Research Project. His research and publication is in Whitehead's philosophy, Process Philosophy and Process Theology; De/constructive Theology; Poststructuralism (Gilles Deleuze); Transreligious Discourse and interreligious applications (e.g., Christianity, Buddhism, Baha'i Faith); Comparative Philosophy and Mysticism; and Theopoetics. His publications include The Becoming of God (Cascade Books, 2017), The Divine Manifold (Lexington Books, 2014) and God as Poet of the World (Westminster John Knox Press, 2008). Jeffrey A. Bell is Professor of Philosophy at Southeastern Louisiana University. He has recently been a Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor in Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London, during which time much of this book was written. He is the author of numerous books and articles on Deleuze and Deleuze and Guattari, including Deleuze and Guattari's What is Philosophy?: A Critical Introduction and Guide (Edinburgh University Press, 2016), Deleuze’s Hume (Edinburgh University Press, 2008), Philosophy at the Edge of Chaos (University of Toronto Press, 2006) and The Problem of Difference: Phenomenology and Poststructuralism (University of Toronto Press, 1998). Bell is co-editor with Paul Livingston and Andrew Cutrofello of Beyond the Analytic–Continental Divide: Pluralist Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century (Routledge, 2015) and with Claire Colebrook of Deleuze and History (Edinburgh University Press, 2009). Joseph Petek is the Director of Research and Publication of the Whitehead Research Project of Gonzaga University and Executive Editor of The Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Complete Works of Alfred North Whitehead. He has co-edited three books on Whitehead: Rethinking Whitehead’s Symbolism (2017), Whitehead at Harvard, 1924–1925 (2020), and The Harvard Lectures of Alfred North Whitehead, 1925–1927: General Metaphysical Problems of Science (2021). His latest book is Unearthing the Unknown Whitehead (2022), which examines the significance of Whitehead's Harvard lectures and other previously unknown archival materials.

Notes on the Contributors

Abbreviations

IntroductionJoseph Petek

Part I: Perception and Paradox

1. Whitehead on Causality and PerceptionSteven Shaviro

2. Originary Symbolism: Whitehead, Deleuze, and the Process View on PerceptionKeith Robinson

3. Uniting Earth to the Blue of Heaven Above: Strange Attractors in Whitehead's SymbolismRoland Faber

Part II: Adventures in Culture and Value

4. The Inhumanity of SymbolismMichael Halewood

5. Reverence, Revision, and Creaturely Life: Whitehead’s Political Theology of EnjoymentBeatrice Marovich

6. Ren and Causal Efficacy: Confucians and Whitehead on the Social Role of SymbolismHyo-Dong Lee

7. Avoiding a Fatal Error: Extending Whitehead's Symbolism Beyond LanguageSheri Kling

Part III: Misplaced Concreteness in Ethics and Science

8. A Dog’s Life: Thought, Symbols, and ConceptsJeffrey Bell

9. From Manipulation to Co-Creation: Whitehead on the Ethics of Symbol CreationLuke Higgins

10. On Symbols, Propositions, and Idiocies: Toward a Slow TechnoscienceAdam Nocek

11. Of Symbolism: Climate Concreteness, Causal Efficacy, and the Whiteheadian CosmopolisCatherine Keller

Notes on the Contributors

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	30.09.2017
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
ISBN-10	1-4744-2956-4 / 1474429564
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-2956-6 / 9781474429566
Zustand	Neuware