Creativity and its discontents [[electronic resource] ] : the response to Whitehead's Process and reality / / Alan Van Wyk and Michel Weber (eds)

• Pubblicazione: Frankfurt, : Ontos Verlag, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (253 p.)
• Disciplina: 100
• Soggetto topico: Cosmology; Process philosophy
• Altri autori: WykAlan WeberMichel
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Cup And Macmillan Editions, 1929 -- 2. Macmillan Reprint, 1960 -- 3. Free Press Corrected Edition, 1978 -- 4. Translations -- 5. Bibliographies -- Index -- Table Of Contents -- Backmatter
• Sommario/riassunto: ""I do not expect a good reception from professional philosophers"" wrote Whitehead in 1929, immediately after the publication of Process and Reality. Indeed, it took nearly thirty years before scholars seriously started to try to decipher the book taken as a whole. And there remains today ""professional"" Whiteheadians who claim that this work can - or even should - be bracketed by anyone wishing to get a clear picture of Whitehead's true speculative agenda. Creativity and Its Discontents aims to provide evidence of the conditions for this state of affairs by gathering and contextualizing all
• Titolo autorizzato: Creativity and its discontents
• ISBN: 3-11-032785-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779732303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Process Thought