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Didier Debaise brings Alfred North Whitehead's philosophies of nature to bear on the Anthropocene, creating a new theory of nature that does not recognize a divide between the human and nonhuman, a theory in which all organisms have the power to unleash potential into the world.

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“The takeaway of Debaise’s careful analysis is a robust and persuasive understanding of the ontology of affect, and affect as valuation–the feeling of the world in its allness and being moved by it according to what is of interest and importance to the societies we are and are becoming.” -- M. Gail Hamner * affecognitive *

"As Debaise puts it: 'What is needed is a philosophy that, in its very form, its ambition and its manners of relating to things, can grant due importance to the deeply plural experience of nature.' This is the philosophy to which Debaise has opened us in his reading of Whitehead."

-- Patricia Ticineto Clough * Critical Inquiry *

Table of Contents
Introduction 1
1. The Cosmology of the Moderns 3
2. A Universal Mannerism 39
3. The Intensification of Experience 77
Notes 87
Bibliography 99
Index 103

Nature as Event

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      Publisher Duke University Press
      Published 6 October 2017
      ISBN-13 9780822369332
      978-0822369332
      ISBN-10 0822369338
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      Analytical philosophy and Logical Positivism

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Didier Debaise brings Alfred North Whitehead's philosophies of nature to bear on the Anthropocene, creating a new theory of nature that does not recognize a divide between the human and nonhuman, a theory in which all organisms have the power to unleash potential into the world.

      Trade Review
      “The takeaway of Debaise’s careful analysis is a robust and persuasive understanding of the ontology of affect, and affect as valuation–the feeling of the world in its allness and being moved by it according to what is of interest and importance to the societies we are and are becoming.” -- M. Gail Hamner * affecognitive *

      "As Debaise puts it: 'What is needed is a philosophy that, in its very form, its ambition and its manners of relating to things, can grant due importance to the deeply plural experience of nature.' This is the philosophy to which Debaise has opened us in his reading of Whitehead."

      -- Patricia Ticineto Clough * Critical Inquiry *

      Table of Contents
      Introduction 1
      1. The Cosmology of the Moderns 3
      2. A Universal Mannerism 39
      3. The Intensification of Experience 77
      Notes 87
      Bibliography 99
      Index 103

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