Language and Process: Words, Whitehead and the World (Intersections in Continental and Analytic Philosophy) - Hardcover

Halewood, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1474449107 ISBN 13: 9781474449106

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2020

Synopsis

Michael Halewood uses ideas from analytic philosophy and continental philosophy as well as social theory to look at how language relates to the world, and the world to language. He addresses important questions such as whether words are able to capture the world (nouns); whether the properties of things, such as colours, are real (adjectives); and how we can think about the world as process (verbs). Primarily using the work of Alfred North Whitehead, but also incorporating the ideas of Gilles Deleuze, John Dewey and Luce Irigaray, he argues that viewing both the world and language as ‘in process’ can help reframe and move beyond some enduring problems and shed new light for future research.

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About the Author

Michael Halewood is Professor in Sociology at the University of Essex. He is the author of Language and Process: Words, Whitehead and the World (EUP, 2020), Rethinking the Social through Durkheim, Marx, Weber and Whitehead (Anthem Press, 2014) and A. N. Whitehead and Social Theory: Tracing a Culture of Thought (Anthem Press, 2011). He is co-editor of Butler on Whitehead (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012). He is the translator of The Lure of Possibilities by Didier Debaise (Duke University Press, 2017).

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A process-inspired approach to understanding language and the world through the work of Alfred North WhiteheadDo we really know how words actually refer to things, how they describe the world? These questions are not limited to the study of language. They quickly lead to important debates about the character of existence and subjectivity, and they are also linked to wider questions about gender and the status of capitalism.Michael Halewood uses ideas from analytic philosophy and continental philosophy as well as social theory to look at the relation of language to the world, and the world to language. Primarily using the work of the innovative British philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, but also incorporating the ideas of Gilles Deleuze, John Dewey and Luce Irigaray, he argues that viewing both the world and language as ‘in process’ can help reframe and move beyond some enduring problems and shed new light for future research.Michael Halewood is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Essex.

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1474449107
• ISBN 13: 9781474449106
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176