Pierfrancesco Basile

Whitehead's Metaphysics of Power (eBook, PDF)

Reconstructing Modern Philosophy

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Produktbeschreibung

At the beginning of his magnum opus, Process and Reality (1929), Whitehead lists a series of beliefs which he thinks are widely held by contemporary philosophers. They are all condemned as dangerously mistaken.

What are these myths? Why are they rejected? In the works of which modern thinker did they arise? What precisely went wrong? At what stage in the development of Western thought did this happen?

By tackling these questions, Pierfrancesco Basile makes it possible to grasp the main concepts of Whitehead's process metaphysics - especially the crucial notion that being and power are one and the same - and appreciate the complex way this is rooted in the modern philosophical tradition.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474404150
• Artikelnr.: 50403503

Autorenporträt

Pierfrancesco Basile is a lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Bern, Switzerland.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Part I. In Search of a New Metaphysics
1. Introduction: Metaphysics, Science, Common Sense
2. Speculative Metaphysics: Defining the Ideal
Part II. From Permanence to Process
3. Deconstructing Tradition: Substance Revisited
4. The Flowing Self: From Monads to Actual Occasions
5. Overcoming the Cartesian Legacy: The Process Concept of Substance
Part III. From Process to Permanence
6. Changing Shapes of Reality: Understanding Nature under a Social Analogy
7. Theological Afterthoughts: A Neo-Platonic God for a Darwinian Universe?
8. Conclusion: The Ethics of Creativity - A Deweyan Critique
Appendix: The Making of a Metaphysician - a Biographical Note
Bibliography
Index