Rethinking Whitehead's Symbolism
Subtitle: thought, language, culture
By: edited by Roland Faber, Jeffrey A. Bell and Joseph Petek
Publisher: Edinburgh University  Press
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Edinburgh]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9781474429566; 9781474429573; 9781474429580; 9781474429597
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Symbolism; Philosophy
Description: "Explores the contemporary significance of Alfred North Whitehead's Symbolism: its meaning and effect."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Whitehead on causality and perception  -- Steven Shaviro; title: Originary symbolism: Whitehead, Deleuze and the process view on perception  -- Keith Robinson; title: United earth to the blue of heaven above: strange attractors in Whitehead's Symbolism  -- Roland Faber; title: The inhumanity of symbolism  -- Michael Halewood; title: Reverence, revision and creaturely life: Whitehead's political theology of enjoyment  -- Beatrice Marovich; title: Ren and causal efficacy: Confucians Whitehead on the social role of symbolism  -- Hyo-Dong Lee; title: Avoiding a fatal error: extending Whitehead's symbolism beyond language  -- Sheri D. Kling; title: A dog's life: thought, symbols and concepts  -- Jeffrey Bell; title: From manipulation to co-creation: Whitehead on the ethics of symbol-making  -- Luke B. Higgins; title: On symbols, propositions and idiocies: towards a slow technoscience  -- A. J. Nocek; title: Of symbolism: climate concreteness, causal efficacy and the Whiteheadian cosmopolis -- Catherine Keller.