Description
Book SynopsisRoland Faber is Kilsby Family/John B. Cobb Jr. Professor of Process Studies at Claremont School of Theology, Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Claremont Graduate University, USA and Executive Director of the Whitehead Research Project.
Andrew Goffey is Associate Professor of Critical Theory and Cultural Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK.
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Preface
Roland Faber Introduction
Andrew Goffey Part I: Crossings: Connection, Disconnection, Vibration 1. Atomicity, Conformation, Enduring Objects, and “Things”
James Bono 2. Another Response to Shaviro
Graham Harman 3. Touch: A Philosophic Meditation
Roland Faber Part II: Things: Substances, Individuals, and Creatures 4. The Time of the Object: Derrida, Luhmann, and the Processual Nature of Substances
Levi R. Bryant 5. Conatus and Concrescence: Stearns and Whitehead on Individuation
Jude Jones 6. Creaturely Things: Living Matter, Dead Matter & the Resonance of Actual Entities
Beatrice Marovich 7. Facts as Social Things
Michael Halewood Part III: Dramatisations: Situating, Abstracting, Experimenting 8. Between Realism and Antirealism: Deleuzian Metaphysics in the Style of Whitehead
Jeffrey Bell 9. A Situated Metaphysics. Reading Whitehead on Things and History
Melanie Sehgal 10. Speculative philosophy and the art of dramatization
Isabelle Stengers 11. Philosophical Experimentation Between Deleuze and Guattari
Andrew Goffey References Index
