Process and Reality

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6.25 x 1.25 x 9.25 inches, 413 pages

English language

Published July 1, 1978 by The Free Press.

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978-0-02-934570-2
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One of the major philosophical texts of the 20th century, Process and Reality is based on Alfred North Whitehead’s influential lectures that he delivered at the University of Edinburgh in the 1920s on process philosophy.

Whitehead’s master work in philsophy, Process and Reality propounds a system of speculative philosophy, known as process philosophy, in which the various elements of reality into a consistent relation to each other. It is also an exploration of some of the preeminent thinkers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, such as Descartes, Newton, Locke, and Kant.

The ultimate edition of Whitehead’s magnum opus, Process and Reality is a standard reference for scholars of all backgrounds.

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A monumental work that opens the new Aeon

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This is such a difficult work that even Dummett's The Logical Basis of Metaphysics seems trivial in comparison. 350 pages of torture. Whitehead's style is also not inviting at all. He had already written the Principia by then. The last of the grand old metaphysicians. Deleuze seems nothing compared to him.

"Its influence will radiate through concentric circles of popularization until the common man will think and work in the light of it, not knowing whence the light came." Factually the whole second half of the 20th century was under the influence of Whitehead, in the guise of Gaia hypothesis, ecology, embodied etc., though extremely indirect, and along with other factors like Jungian, Teilhardian thoughts. Ingold's anthropology, phenomenology after Merleau-Ponty, the hype with Buddhism... All stems from this monumental, epoch-making work.

If you read Schelling, or Jung, or whatever process theology, Whitehead is a must, since he's a developed form …

Subjects

  • Process Philosophy
  • Metaphysics
  • Philosophy