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Speculative Empiricism: Revisiting Whitehead [Minkštas viršelis]

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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 248 pages, aukštis x plotis: 234x156 mm
  • Serija: Speculative Realism
  • Išleidimo metai: 30-Sep-2017
  • Leidėjas: Edinburgh University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1474423051
  • ISBN-13: 9781474423052
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 248 pages, aukštis x plotis: 234x156 mm
  • Serija: Speculative Realism
  • Išleidimo metai: 30-Sep-2017
  • Leidėjas: Edinburgh University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1474423051
  • ISBN-13: 9781474423052
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
A radically new philosophy of experience and speculation, based on a reading of Whitehead's Process and Reality

Can experience be thought systematically without transforming the richness of the world as it is lived into reductive philosophical generalities? Can the method of empiricism ever be reconciled with a method of systematic cosmological speculation?

Didier Debaise's reading of Whitehead shows clearly what a philosophy that makes this possible looks like, how it works and what is at stake. He focuses in on Whitehead's attempt to construct a metaphysical system of everything in the universe that exists whilst simultaneously claiming that it can account for every element of our experience: everything enjoyed and perceived, willed or thought.

Recenzijos

'In Speculative Empiricism, Didier Debaise expertly guides the reader on a remarkable voyage through Whitehead's metaphysical masterpiece, Process and Reality. The juxtaposition of the two title words sets the agenda, giving notice from the start that we will be heading into unexpected territory. Here, speculation will become a matter of experience, and experience, reciprocally, will be imbued with the futurity of potential. The result is a novel pragmatics of becoming which Debaise maps with unerring lucidity and precision, providing both an introduction to key Whiteheadian concepts and a major contribution to the scholarship that will be of equal interest to specialists.' - Brian Massumi, University of Montreal

Series Editor's Preface vi
Translator's Note x
Preface Isabelle Stengers xii
1 Introduction
1(6)
Part I Speculative Philosophy: Method and Function
2 What is Speculative Philosophy?
7(14)
3 Creativity as Ultimate Principle
21(9)
4 Actualising Creativity
30(13)
Part II The Speculative Approach to Existence: Process and Individuation
5 What is a Process of Individuation?
43(23)
6 What is the Subject?
66(12)
7 Realisation of Self and Power
78(12)
8 Pure Potentiality and Actuality
90(14)
9 Temporal Dimensions of Actual Entities
104(19)
Part III Experiences and Societies: Thinking Nature
10 A Universe of Societies
123(15)
11 The Mode of Existence of Societies
138(13)
12 Nature and Societies
151(11)
13 Conclusion: What is Speculative Empiricism?
162(7)
Works Cited 169(6)
Index 175
Didier Debaise is Director of the Centre for Research in Philosophy at the Free University of Brussels.