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Author Weber, Michel, 1963-

Title Whitehead's pancreativism : Jamesian applications / Michel Weber.

Publication Info. Frankfurt : Ontos Verlag, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 286 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Process thought ; v. 8
Process thought ; v. 8.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Abbreviations-Whitehead; Abbreviations-James; 0 Preface; 1 Introduction Whitehead's Reading of James and Its Context; 2 The Creative Advance of Nature; 3 Panpsychism in Action; 4 The Polysemiality of the Concept of "Pure Experience"; 5 Religiousness and Religion; 6 James's Mystical Body in the Light of the Transmarginal Field of Consciousness; 7 The Art of Epochal Change; 8 On Pragmatic Anarchy; 9 The Assassination of the Diadoches; 10 Conclusion The Gnostic James; Bibliography; Table of Contents.
Summary Whitehead's Pancreativism: The Basics has provided tools to understand Whitehead secundum Whitehead. We now seek to bring him in dialogue with James. It will be a pragmatic dialogue looking for two types of synergy: to establish the relevance of a Jamesian background to read Whitehead, and to adumbrate how Whitehead can help us understand the stakes of James's works. After one hundred years of scholarship, it appears that James's legacy has mainly been studied from the perspective of his own blend of pragmatism and that this blend has moreover chiefly been put into dialogue with Peirce and ana.
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Subject Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947.
Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947.
James, William, 1842-1910.
James, William, 1842-1910.
James, William, 1842-1910 -- Influence.
Panpsychism.
Panpsychism.
Pragmatism.
Pragmatism.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Weber, Michel. Whitehead's Pancreativism : Jamesian Applications. Berlin : De Gruyter, ©2010 9783110329643
ISBN 9783110329766 (e-book)
311032976X (e-book)
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9783868381030
3110329646
9783110329643
9783868381030
9783110329643