Whitehead's Radically Different Postmodern Philosophy: An Argument for Its Contemporary Relevance (S U N Y Series in Philosophy)
Postmodern philosophy is often dismissed as unintelligible,  self-contradictory, and as a passing fad with no contribution to make to  the problems faced by philosophers in our time. While this characterization  may be true of the type of philosophy labeled postmodern in the 1980s and  1990s, David Ray Griffin argues that Alfred North Whitehead had formulated  a radically different type of postmodern philosophy to which these  criticisms do not apply. Griffin shows the power of Whitehead's philosophy  in dealing with a range of contemporary issues--the mind-body relation,  ecological ethics, truth as correspondence, the relation of time in physics  to the (irreversible) time of our lives, and the reality of moral norms. He  also defends a distinctive dimension of Whitehead's postmodernism, his  theism, against various criticisms, including the charge that it is  incompatible with relativity theory."Those who are unfamiliar with Griffin's recent books will be grateful for  this clear, readable, and thorough introduction to Whitehead's philosophy  as constructive (rather than deconstructive) and postmodern. However, those  who are well versed in Griffin's previous books will also benefit from his  expanded use of the theory of hard-core common sense, his defense of  theological ethics, and his detailed examination of Whitehead's reformed  subjectivist principle. In short, this is an excellent book that could be  read with profit by philosophers and theologians generally." -- Daniel A.  Dombrowski, author ofRawls and Religion: The Case for Political  Liberalism"No one working in the area of process thought will want to miss this major  new book by David Ray Griffin." -- Donald W. Sherburne, coeditor ofWhitehead's Philosophy: Points of Connection--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.