Marx and Whitehead
Subtitle: Process, Dialectics, and the Critique of Capitalism (Philosophy of the Social Sciences)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: February 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780791459836
Subjects: Economic theory & philosophy; Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present; Philosophy; Political; History & Theory - General; Politics / Current Events; Whitehead, Alfred North,; Political Ideologies - Communism & Socialism; Dialectical materialism; 1861-1947; Capitalism; Marxian economics
Description: "Marx and Whitehead asks us to reconsider capitalism, not merely as an "economic system" but as a fundamentally self-destructive mode that, by its very nature and operation, undermines the cohesive fabric of human existence. Author Anne Fairchild Pomeroy asserts that it is impossible to appreciate fully the impact of Marx's critique of capitalism without understanding the philosophical system that underlies it.

Alfred North Whitehead's work is used to forge a systematic link between process philosophy and dialectical materialism via the category of production. Whitehead's process thought brings Marx's philosophical vision into sharper focus.

This union provides the grounds for Pomeroy's claim that the heart of Marx's critique of capitalism is fundamentally ontological, and that therefore the necessary condition for genuine human flourishing lies in overcoming the capitalist form of social relations."--Jacket.