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Beyond Metaphysics?
Explorations in Alfred North Whiteheadâs Late Thought
Series: - Value Inquiry Book Series, Volume: 220
- Contemporary Whitehead Studies, Volume: 220
Alfred North Whiteheadâs interpreters usually pay less attention to his later monographs and essays. Process and Reality is taken to be the definitive center of the Whiteheadian universe and the later works, thereby, appear to many only as applications or elaborations of themes already introduced earlier. Yet, is it also possible that the dominance of this perspective has obscured or even distorted further creative developments of Whiteheadâs thought? This volume offers a sort of Copernican revolution in Whitehead interpretation, methodologically and conceptually inviting its contributors to observe Whiteheadâs work from the perspective of his later works. The aim of this preferencing is meant not to invalidate earlier approaches to Whiteheadâs thought nor is the inference that the later works are more authoritative. Yet, just as the first space-based images of our planet forever changed humanityâs understanding of its place in the universe, shifting the alleged center of, or even decentering of the view on, Whiteheadâs âphilosophy of organismâ to the later works, we might discover previously obscured ideas or new vistas of thought relevant not only to our current philosophical landscape, but also to the pressing issues of our fragile and endangered world. This volume invites its contributors and readers to consider whether one thereby also moves beyond metaphysics?
The Contemporary Whitehead Studies
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Roland Faber and Brian G. Henning: Introduction: Whiteheadâs Other Copernican Turn
Complexities of System, Life, and Novelty
Vincent Colapietro: Toward a Metaphysics of Expression
Christoph Kann: Renewing Speculation: The Systematic Aim of Whiteheadâs Philosophic Cosmology
Dennis Soelch: Beyond Metaphysics?âA Historiographical Approach to Whiteheadâs Speculative Philosophy
Deena Lin: Citing the Paradox: Probing the Systematization of Whitehead as Philosopher Subject
Clinton Combs: Before Metaphysics: Modes of Thought as a Prequel to Whiteheadâs âTrilogyâ
Roland Faber: Immanence and Incompleteness: Whiteheadâs Late Metaphysics
Depths of Nature, Order, and Organicity
Robert J. Valenza: The Organism of Forms in Later Whitehead
Jeremy Dunham: Beyond Dogmatic Finality: Whitehead and the Laws of Nature
Joachim Klose: Alfred North Whiteheadâs Receptacle
Helmut MaaÃen: Contingency and Whiteheadâs Metaphysics of Experience
Regine Kather: The Web of Life and the Constitution of Human Identity: Rethinking Nature as the Main Issue of Whiteheadâs Late Metaphysics
Evocations of Value, Beauty, and Concern
Brian G. Henning: Re-Centering Process Thought: Recovering Beauty in A. N. Whiteheadâs Late Work
Stascha Rohmer: The Self-Evidence of Civilization
Michael Halewood: Fact, Values, Individuals, and Others: Towards a Metaphysics of Value
Steven Shaviro: Self-enjoyment and Concern: On Whitehead and Levinas
Jude Jones: Provocative Expression: Transitions In and From Metaphysics in Whiteheadâs Later Work
Isabella Palin: The Dream of Solomon
Works Cited
About the Authors
Index
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Roland Faber and Brian G. Henning: Introduction: Whiteheadâs Other Copernican Turn
Complexities of System, Life, and Novelty
Vincent Colapietro: Toward a Metaphysics of Expression
Christoph Kann: Renewing Speculation: The Systematic Aim of Whiteheadâs Philosophic Cosmology
Dennis Soelch: Beyond Metaphysics?âA Historiographical Approach to Whiteheadâs Speculative Philosophy
Deena Lin: Citing the Paradox: Probing the Systematization of Whitehead as Philosopher Subject
Clinton Combs: Before Metaphysics: Modes of Thought as a Prequel to Whiteheadâs âTrilogyâ
Roland Faber: Immanence and Incompleteness: Whiteheadâs Late Metaphysics
Depths of Nature, Order, and Organicity
Robert J. Valenza: The Organism of Forms in Later Whitehead
Jeremy Dunham: Beyond Dogmatic Finality: Whitehead and the Laws of Nature
Joachim Klose: Alfred North Whiteheadâs Receptacle
Helmut MaaÃen: Contingency and Whiteheadâs Metaphysics of Experience
Regine Kather: The Web of Life and the Constitution of Human Identity: Rethinking Nature as the Main Issue of Whiteheadâs Late Metaphysics
Evocations of Value, Beauty, and Concern
Brian G. Henning: Re-Centering Process Thought: Recovering Beauty in A. N. Whiteheadâs Late Work
Stascha Rohmer: The Self-Evidence of Civilization
Michael Halewood: Fact, Values, Individuals, and Others: Towards a Metaphysics of Value
Steven Shaviro: Self-enjoyment and Concern: On Whitehead and Levinas
Jude Jones: Provocative Expression: Transitions In and From Metaphysics in Whiteheadâs Later Work
Isabella Palin: The Dream of Solomon
Works Cited
About the Authors
Index