Whitehead's Metaphysics of Power
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-3740-0 (ISBN)
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 | 18.09.2018 |
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| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 255 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4744-3740-0 / 1474437400 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4744-3740-0 / 9781474437400 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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