Rethinking Whitehead’s Symbolism : : Thought, Language, Culture / / Joseph Petek, Roland Faber, Jeffrey A. Bell.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Faber, Roland,; Bell, Jeffrey A.,; Petek, Joseph,
• MitwirkendeR: Bell, Jeffrey,; Faber, Roland,; Halewood, Michael,; Higgins, Luke B.,; Keller, Catherine,; Kling, Sheri D.,; Lee, Hyo-Dong,; Marovich, Beatrice,; Nocek, A. J.,; Petek, Joseph,; Robinson, Keith,; Shaviro, Steven,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)

Explores the contemporary significance of Alfred North Whitehead’s 1927 book Symbolism: Its Meaning and EffectThis collection of 11 essays form a new examination of Whitehead’s Barbour-Page lectures, which were published as the book Symbolism: Its Meaning and Effect in 1927. Leading Whitehead scholars give you exciting insights into the contemporary implications of Whitehead's symbolism in an era of new scientific, cultural and technological developments. As a result, Whitehead's philosophy is reinvigorated in the context of contemporary discussions and debates. This volume also serves as a critical point of entry into Whitehead’s more lengthy and complex work such as Process and Reality, and to his body of work as a whole.ContributorsJeffrey Bell, Professor of Philosophy at Southeastern Louisiana UniversityRoland Faber, Kilsby Family/John B. Cobb, Jr., Professor of Process Studies at Claremont School of Theology, Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Claremont Graduate University, Co-Director of the Center for Process Studies and Executive Director of the Whitehead Research ProjectMichael Halewood, Senior Lecturer at the University of EssexLuke Higgins, Lecturer in Philosophy at Armstrong UniversityCatherine Keller, Professor of Constructive Theology and Henry Luce Fellow at the Theological School and Graduate Division of Religion at Drew UniversitySheri Kling, Doctoral Candidate in Process Thought at Claremont School of TheologyHyo-Dong Lee, Associate Professor of Comparative Theology at the Theological School and Graduate Division of Religion at Drew UniversityBeatrice Marovich, Writer and Assistant Professor in the Department of Theological Studies at Hanover CollegeAdam Nocek, Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Technology and Science and Technology Studies in the School of Arts, Media + Engineering at Arizona State UniversityJoseph Petek, Doctoral Student in Process Thought at Claremont School of Theology, Chief Archivist of the Whitehead Research Project, Assistant Series Editor for the Critical Edition of Whitehead and English Coordinator for the Balkan Journal of PhilosophyKeith Robinson, Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Arkansas at Little RockSteven Shaviro, DeRoy Professor of English at Wayne State University"

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I Perception and Paradox -- 1 Whitehead on Causality and Perception -- 2 Originary Symbolism: Whitehead, Deleuze and the Process View on Perception -- 3 Uniting Earth to the Blue of Heaven Above: Strange Attractors in Whitehead’s Symbolism -- Part II Adventures in Culture and Value -- 4 The Inhumanity of Symbolism -- 5 Reverence, Revision and Creaturely Life: Whitehead’s Political Theology of Enjoyment -- 6 Ren and Causal Efficacy: Confucians and Whitehead on the Social Role of Symbolism -- 7 Avoiding a Fatal Error: Extending Whitehead’s Symbolism Beyond Language -- Part III Misplaced Concreteness in Ethics and Science -- 8 A Dog’s Life: Thought, Symbols and Concepts -- 9 From Manipulation to Co-creation: Whitehead on the Ethics of Symbol-Making -- 10 On Symbols, Propositions and Idiocies: Towards a Slow Technoscience -- 11 Of Symbolism: Climate Concreteness, Causal Efficacy and the Whiteheadian Cosmopolis -- Notes on Contributors -- Index