num_pages: 400
description: Philospher, mathematician &amp; general man of science, Whitehead was a polymath whose interests &amp; sympathies encompassed entire worlds. Here, modelled on Eckermann's conversations with Goethe &amp; recorded in Whitehead's own home, are some of the landmarks, signposts, milestones &amp; scenery of that extraordinary mind. His approach to life &amp; science provides a compass for the modern world. In these pages the reaches of his thought--in philosophy, religion, science, statesmanship, education, literature, art &amp; conduct of life--are gathered &amp; edited by the writer Lucien Price, a journalist whose own interests were as eclectic as Whitehead's &amp; whose memory for verbatim conversation was nothing short of miraculous. The scene, the Cambridge of Harvard from 1932-47 (with flashbacks to London, Cambridge, England &amp; his native Ramsgate in Kent); the cast, often eminent men &amp; women, who join him for these penetrating, audacious &amp; exhilarating verbal forays. The subjects range from the homeliest details of living to the greatest ideas that have animated minds over the past 30 centuries. Featuring a new preface &amp; an introduction--previously unavailable in this country--this book stands alongside Boswell's as a model of biography, shaped jointly by the acuity of the biographer &amp; the genius of the subject. It also stands as an accessible monument to a mind that never stopped working, a man whose life &amp; career no writer could have invented &amp; no serious reader can afford to overlook.
language: English
title: Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead
titlecomplete: Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead (A Nonpareil Book)
genres: Biography, Science, Philosophy, Nonfiction, Memoir
ratings_count: 77
publisher: David R. Godine, Publisher