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Whitehead's Metaphysics of Power Reconstructing Modern Philosophy

Basile, Pierfrancesco
Heftet / 2018 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781474437400
Publisert
2018-08-12
Utgiver
Edinburgh University Press
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255 gr
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234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
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U, P, 05, 06
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Engelsk
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Heftet
Antall sider
160

Forfatter
Basile, Pierfrancesco

Biografisk notat

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

Whitehead's Metaphysics of Power Reconstructing Modern Philosophy

Basile, Pierfrancesco
Heftet / 2018 / Engelsk
Basile, Pierfrancesco
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Whitehead’s speculative cosmology and willingness to reform language in its service set him against the philosophical trends of his time. Pierfrancesco Basile’s discerning study eschews adulation, revealing a carefully revolutionary Whitehead grappling with matter, mind and metaphysics, a tempered rationalist indebted to Leibniz, whose philosophy "escapes any easy judgment."

- Peter Simons, Trinity College Dublin,

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.
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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.
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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
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Shows how Whitehead’s metaphysics of power and events is deeply rooted in mainstream Western philosophy

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Whitehead’s speculative cosmology and willingness to reform language in its service set him against the philosophical trends of his time. Pierfrancesco Basile’s discerning study eschews adulation, revealing a carefully revolutionary Whitehead grappling with matter, mind and metaphysics, a tempered rationalist indebted to Leibniz, whose philosophy "escapes any easy judgment."

- Peter Simons, Trinity College Dublin,

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.
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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.
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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
Les mer
Shows how Whitehead’s metaphysics of power and events is deeply rooted in mainstream Western philosophy

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781474437400
Publisert
2018-08-12
Utgiver
Edinburgh University Press
Vekt
255 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
160

Forfatter
Basile, Pierfrancesco

Biografisk notat

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

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