Language and Process
Words, Whitehead and the World
1st Edition
Published on 10. January 2020
177 pages
978-1-4744-4912-0 (ISBN)
Description
Michael Halewood uses ideas from analytic philosophy and continental philosophy as well as social theory to look at how language relates to the world, and the world to language. He addresses important questions such as whether words are able to capture the world (nouns); whether the properties of things, such as colours, are real (adjectives); and how we can think about the world as process (verbs). Primarily using the work of Alfred North Whitehead, but also incorporating the ideas of Gilles Deleuze, John Dewey and Luce Irigaray, he argues that viewing both the world and language as 'in process' can help reframe and move beyond some enduring problems and shed new light for future research.
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Content
- Cover
- Title page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- 1. Introduction: The Problem of Words and Things
- 2. Nouns, Names and Signs: From Frege to Saussure
- 3. Adjectives: The Properties of the World and the 'Bifurcation of Nature'
- 4. Verbs: Deleuze on Infinitives, Events and Process
- 5. Adverbs: Dewey on the Qualities of Existence
- 6. Prepositions: Whitehead on the 'Withness' of the Body
- 7. Gender and Personal Pronouns: She, He, It and They
- 8. Tone, Force and Rhetoric: Capitalism, Theology and Grammar
- 9. Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
