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Book SynopsisAs with any rich philosophical tradition in a period of intensive growth, process philosophy may seem confusing to the uninitiated, or even to the initiated. There is simply so much going on that one may, so to speak, lose the forest for the trees. The purpose of this book is to organize and arrange selected examples of contemporary work in process philosophy, with opening commentaries by leading Whiteheadian scholars, to give the reader a taste of the global vision of process currently expressed within this field of philosophy.This book is split into two parts: the first discussing the historical roots of and future perspectives for basic concepts of process thinking, and the second presenting original contemporary work in extending and re-interpreting the basic metaphysical structure of process.
Trade ReviewThe meaning and significance of Whitehead springs from his amazing capacity to take into account past philosophical and scientific adventures of ideas and to actualize them. At a time of major, even dramatic, ethical challenges and ideological uncertainties, this is precisely what this remarkable collection of essays brings about. To paraphrase Huxley (The Perennial Philosophy, 1947), Whitehead’s legacy is the plummet and Whitheadian scholarship the astrolabe of this book, that aims at a nothing less than a second Renaissance. -- Michel Weber, Director of the Centre for Philosophical Practice, Brussels
Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Inspirations and Perspectives (Introduction by Helmut Maaßen) Chapter 1: Herman Greene, The Whiteheadian Century Chapter 2: Karl-Friedrich Kiesow, Golden Mean, Golden Rule, Golden Section Chapter 3: Helmut Maaßen, Critique of Religious Dogmatism Chapter 4: Zsofi Frei, Synchronising the Timaeus Chapter 5: Yuzo Yamaura, Being is Power Chapter 6: Anderson Weekes, Acknowledging Ralph Pred Part II: Revisions and Challenges (Introduction by Łukasz Lamża) Chapter 7: Vesselin Petrov, Constructive Postmodernism as Dynamic Holism Chapter 8: Maria-Teresa Teixeira, Process, Levels of Reality and Evolution Chapter 9: Jakub Dziadkowiec, Stratalism Chapter 10: Mathias Hassenfratz-Coffinet, The Unity of Nexus Chapter 11: Maria Regina Brioschi, Between Continuity and Atomism About the Authors
