Whitehead's Metaphysics of Creativity

Rapp, Freidrich (Editor); Wiehl, Reiner (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0791402037 / ISBN 13: 9780791402030

Published by State University of New York Press, 1990

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Book cover has light edge wear with small chip to bottom edge of spine, one scuff to front, and leftover price sticker on back, otherwise looks bright and presentable. Tight binding. Small/light ink mark to inner endpaper and title page, otherwise pages are clean and crisp. Overall largely a sturdy copy with clean pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Whitehead's Metaphysics of Creativity
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791402037
• ISBN 13: 9780791402030
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Philosophy

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Synopsis

This book discusses the problems raised by Whitehead's metaphysics of creativity-metaphysics focused on dynamic becoming rather than on static being-and the proposed solutions to those problems. Whitehead adds a new dimension to the issues of traditional metaphysics by taking into account the world view of our civilization and the results of modern science. His all-embracing speculative cosmology provides a synthesis which goes far beyond the details considered in modern analytic philosophy. To him, the principle of novelty is the universal of universals, and in his system of categories, he aims at avoiding the bifurcation of nature into a physical and mental pole.

About the Author

In West Germany, Friedrich Rapp is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Dortmund and Reiner Wiehl is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Heidelberg.