Creativity and Its Discontents
The Response to Whitehead's Process and Reality
Published on 30. January 2009
Book
Hardback
250 pages
978-3-86838-018-7 (ISBN)
Description
"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 the major reviews (translated where need be) of Process and Reality: its original 1929 edition, its various translations (some of them still ongoing) and its 1978 corrected edition. It is designed as the ideal tool to accompany the recently published Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought.
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Michel Weber obtained his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium). He is the director of the Centre for philosophical practice "Chromatiques whiteheadiennes" (Brussels). In 2008-2009, he is visiting Professor at the New Bulgarian University (Sofia), Department of Cognitive Science and Psychology & Department of Philosophy and Sociology. He has published, e.g., La dialectique de l'intuition chez A. N. Whitehead (Ontos Verlag, 2005), Whitehead's Pancreativism (Ontos Verlag, 2006), L'épreuve de la philosophie (Éditions Chromatika, 2008) and Éduquer (à) l'anarchie (Éditions Chromatika, 2008).