Butler on Whitehead

On the Occasion
Herausgeber: Faber, Roland; Lin, Deena; Halewood, Michael

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Produktbeschreibung

Considered together, Butler and Whitehead draw from a wide palette of disciplines to develop distinctive theories of becoming, of syntactical violence, and creative opportunities of limitation. The contributors of this volume offer a unique contribution to and for the humanities in the struggles of politics, economy, ecology, and the arts

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 697g
• ISBN-13: 9780739172766
• ISBN-10: 073917276X
• Artikelnr.: 35057106

Autorenporträt

Roland Faber is the Kilsby Family/John B. Cobb, Jr. Professor of Process Studies, as well as the executive co-director of the Center for Process Studies and executive director of the Whitehead Research Project, which was founded in 2007. Michael Halewood is senior lecturer in sociology at the University of Essex. Deena M. Lin is a Ph.D candidate in philosophy of religion and theology at the Claremont Graduate University.

Inhaltsangabe

ForewordDeena M. Lin
AcknowledgmentsIntroductionMichael HalewoodPart I: Butler on
WhiteheadChapter 1: On this Occasion . . .Judith Butler
Chapter 2: After Performativity: On Concern and CritiqueVikki Bell
Chapter 3: Provocative Reflections: Judith Butler on Subjectivity,
Objectivity, and Moral ObligationsRandy Ramal
Part II: Butler and WhiteheadChapter 4: Undoing and Unknowing: The Widening
Relations of Judith Butler and Alfred North WhiteheadCatherine Keller
Chapter 5: Adventure and Risk: Exploring Creative Possibility for True
Ethical ResponsibilityJeremy D. Fackenthal
Chapter 6: Coming Out with Butler and Whitehead: Opacity, Apophasis, and
the Phallacy of Misplaced ClosetnessSigridur Guðmarsdóttir
Chapter 7: The Feeling of What Matters: Vectors of Power in Butler and
WhiteheadAlan Van Wyk
Chapter 8: Khora and Violence: Revisiting Butler with WhiteheadRoland Faber
Chapter 9: Modes of Violence: Whitehead, Deleuze, and the Displacement of
NeoliberalismJeffrey A. Bell
Chapter 10: Language, the Body, and the Problem of SignificationMichael
Halewood
Chapter 11: The Objects Have Been Equal to the OccasionAstrid Lorange
Part III: On Butler On MourningChapter 12: Prehending Precarity: Presenting
a Social Ontology that Feels Beyond the FrameDeena M. Lin
Chapter 13: Which Lives Are Grievable?Daniel A. Dombrowski
Chapter 14: Loss of 'Self,' Grievability of Life, and Reharmonizing
Political PotentialKirsten M. Gerdes
Chapter 15: "A Tender Care That Nothing Be Lost"-Universal Salvation and
Eternal Loss in Butler and Whitehead?Roland Faber
Chapter 16:Occasioned by "On this Occasion": More Thoughts on Butler and
WhiteheadCatherine Keller
Chapter 17: The Inappropriate Tenderness of the Divine: Mono No Aware and
the Recovery of Loss in Whitehead's AxiologyMatthew S. LoPresti