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Thinking with Whitehead : a free and wild creation of concepts
- Title
- Thinking with Whitehead : a free and wild creation of concepts / Isabelle Stengers ; translated by Michael Chase ; foreword by Bruno Latour.
- Author
- Stengers, Isabelle.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2011.
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- Description
- xix, 531 p.; 25 cm.
- Uniform Title
- Penser avec Whitehead. English
- Alternative Title
- Penser avec Whitehead.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Foreword: What is given in experience? / Bruno Latour -- Introduction: Whitehead today? -- Part I: From the philosophy of nature to metaphysics -- The mathematician and the sunset -- Events and passage -- The foothold of the mind -- There it is again -- Attention to objects -- The ingression of scientific objects -- Interlude: a pragmatics of concepts -- Science and the modern world: a strange book -- A new epoch? -- From the concept of nature to the order of nature -- Scientific objects and the test of the organism -- The event from its own standpoint? -- Entry into metaphysics -- The great refusal -- Part II: Cosmology -- Hic circuli, hic saltus -- Thinking under the constraint of creativity -- The risks of speculative interpretation -- Feeling one's world -- Justifying life? -- The adventure of the senses -- Actuality between physics and the divine -- And they became souls -- Modes of existence, modes of thought -- God and the world -- An adventure of ideas -- Conclusion: Word of a dragon, word of trance.
- Call Number
- JFE 12-1770
- ISBN
- 9780674048034 (alk. paper)
- 0674048032 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2010047153
- OCLC
- YBP 2010047153
- Author
- Stengers, Isabelle.
- Title
- Thinking with Whitehead : a free and wild creation of concepts / Isabelle Stengers ; translated by Michael Chase ; foreword by Bruno Latour.
- Imprint
- Cambridge, Mass. ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2011.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Chase, Michael, 1959-Latour, Bruno.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 12-1770