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 schola...

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