Whitehead's Pancreativism: Jamesian Applications (Process Thought) - Hardcover

Weber, Michel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3868381031 ISBN 13: 9783868381030

Publisher: Ontos Verlag, 2013

Synopsis

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 analytic philosophy at large. This double interpretational shift has allowed James to keep a fair amount of visibility on the academic scene but, over the years, it has significantly obliterated his vision. It is time to rediscover James from the perspective of his radical empiricism.

About this title

About the Author:

Michel Weber is the director of the Centre for Philosophical Practice “Chromatiques whiteheadiennes” (Brussels).

About this edition

• Publisher: Ontos Verlag
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 3868381031
• ISBN 13: 9783868381030
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 286