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Process, Reality, and the Power of Symbols

Thinking with A.N. Whitehead

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Science and the Appropriation of Reality

    • Murray Code
    Pages 1-16

  3. Signs, Symbols, and Metaphysical Imaginaries

    • Murray Code
    Pages 17-37

  4. Minding, Imaging, and Symbolizing

    • Murray Code
    Pages 38-60

  5. A Nearly Comprehensive Naturalism

    • Murray Code
    Pages 61-86

  6. In Search of a ‘True Naturalism’

    • Murray Code
    Pages 87-109

  7. Putting Life Back into Nature

    • Murray Code
    Pages 110-137

  8. On Learning Good Sense

    • Murray Code
    Pages 138-163

  9. Against ‘Conceptual Idolatry’

    • Murray Code
    Pages 164-182

  10. Epilogue: Notes for a Cultural Therapy

    • Murray Code
    Pages 183-197

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 198-244
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About this book

Following A. N. Whitehead, this book takes up the principal challenge facing a natural philosopher who wishes to engage with Nature while rescuing both Life and Thought from materialistic approaches which rob them of their 'quicknesses'. Selecting certain insights and intuitions from the writings of Peirce, Coleridge, Deleuze and Nietzsche, the author proffers a remedy for the pervasive nihilism of 'the moderns' which illustrates Deleuze's suggestion that philosophy should be imaged as a dynamic collage that is forever in the making.

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1 One of a new generation of works which fuse Deleuze with Whitehead

About the author

MURRAY CODE who taught mathematics at the University of Guelph, Canada, has argued for the importance of A. N. Whitehead's views on logic, mathematics, philosophy of science, and metaphysics in two previous books: Order and Organism: Steps to a Whiteheadian Philosophy of Mathematics and the Natural Sciences (1985); and Myths of Reason: Vagueness, Rationality, and the Lure of Logic (1995).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Process, Reality, and the Power of Symbols

  • Book Subtitle: Thinking with A.N. Whitehead

  • Authors: Murray Code

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230597044

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2007

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-52740-9Published: 28 June 2007

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-59704-4Published: 28 June 2007

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 244

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science, Modern Philosophy

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