Language and Process : : Words, Whitehead and the World / / Michael Halewood.
A process-inspired approach to understanding language and the world through the work of Alfred North WhiteheadDevelops a new approach to understanding language and the world by adopting a Whiteheadian perspectiveUses a broad range of examples and literature, bringing together ideas and writers that...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Intersections in Continental and Analytic Philosophy : ICAP
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (176 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: The Problem of Words and Things
- 2 Nouns, Names and Signs: From Frege to Saussure
- 3 Adjectives: The Properties of the World and the ‘Bifurcation of Nature’
- 4 Verbs: Deleuze on Infinitives, Events and Process
- 5 Adverbs: Dewey on the Qualities of Existence
- 6 Prepositions: Whitehead on the ‘Withness’ of the Body
- 7 Gender and Personal Pronouns: She, He, It and They
- 8 Tone, Force and Rhetoric: Capitalism, Theology and Grammar
- 9 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index