Subjectivity, Process, and Rationality
Published on 20. November 2006
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Hardback
358 pages
978-3-938793-38-1 (ISBN)
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This volume gathers prominent international scholars to celebrate the complex legacy of Reiner Wiehl, whose work has been instrumental in bringing together the European tradition of prima philosophia as represented by Plato, Spinoza, Kant and Hegel, with the adventurous speculative renewal of the twentieth century by Alfred North Whitehead. Grouped into four sections (Process and Universals, Nature and Subjectivity, Ethics and Civilization, Psychology and Phenomenology) the fifteen papers collected in this book cover a range of topics which is as wide and as intertwined as Wiehl's own expertise. The common thread running through all contributions is the problematic nature of subjectivity and especially of its process slant, which easily eludes the static and abstract schemes of rationality.
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Michel Weber is one of the most distinguished European philosophers in the area of process philosophy in the tradition of Alfred North Whitehead. He university professor at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, editor of the series Chromatiques whiteheadiennes, and the series Process Thought (both published by ontos verlag) and the organizer of the annual Whitehead conferences in Paris (France) and Louvain (Belgium).
Pierfrancesco Basile received is Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Bern (Switzerland). He has been a research-fellow of the Swiss National Foundation (SNF) and has pursued post-doctoral studies at the University of Edinburgh (Scotland) and at the Center for Process Studies (Claremont, California). He is the author of Experience and Relations. An Examination of Francis Herbert Bradley's Conception of Reality (1999) and of several essays on the origin of analytic philosophy, British idealism and Whitehead's philosophy.
Pierfrancesco Basile received is Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Bern (Switzerland). He has been a research-fellow of the Swiss National Foundation (SNF) and has pursued post-doctoral studies at the University of Edinburgh (Scotland) and at the Center for Process Studies (Claremont, California). He is the author of Experience and Relations. An Examination of Francis Herbert Bradley's Conception of Reality (1999) and of several essays on the origin of analytic philosophy, British idealism and Whitehead's philosophy.