Whitehead's metaphysics of power: reconstructing modern philosophy

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.<br><br>What are these myths?<br>Why are they rejected?<b...

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Main Author: Basile, Pierfrancesco (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 2017
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Summary: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.<br><br>What are these myths?<br>Why are they rejected?<br>In the works of which modern thinker did they arise?<br>What precisely went wrong?<br>At what stage in the development of Western thought did this happen?<br><br>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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Physical Description:1 online resource (xiv, 145 pages)
ISBN:9781474404150

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