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A.N. Whitehead and Social Theory : Tracing a Culture of Thought.
This book outlines A.N. Whitehead's philosophy of process and uses it to re-orient a range of topics within social theory, namely: the relation of language and the body; sexual difference and conceptions of nature; the question of realism; the concept of the social; and capitalism as process.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Anthem Press,
2011.
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| Colección: | Key issues in modern sociology.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Matter; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Main Matter; Chapter One: A CULTURE OF THOUGHT
- THEBIFURCATION OF NATURE; Metaphysics and Sociology; A Culture of Thought
- The Bifurcation of Nature; Philosophy, Science and Contemporary Thought; Chapter Two: INTRODUCING WHITEHEAD'S PHILOSOPHY
- THE LURE OF WHITEHEAD; Subjects and Experience; Actual Entities; Prehensions; Power; Relativity; Creativity; Chapter Three: 'A THOROUGH-GOING REALISM'
- WHITEHEAD ON CAUSE AND CONFORMATION; The Problem of Cause; Realism and Transcendence.
- Cause and Conformation in WhiteheadPresentational Immediacy; Causal Efficacy; Conformation; Chapter Four: THE VALUE OF EXISTENCE; Facts, Values and the Nineteenth Century; Whitehead on Value; What is an Eternal Object?; Chapter Five: SOCIETIES, THE SOCIAL AND SUBJECTIVITY; The Birth of the Social; Sociology and Sociality
- Defining the Terms; Whitehead on Societies; The Individual and Society; Subjectivity and Individuality; Subjective Aim; Conclusion; Chapter Six: LANGUAGE AND THE BODY
- FROM SIGNIFICATION TO SYMBOLISM; The Problem of Language and the Body
- The Problem of Signification.
- Symbolism and Symbolic ReferenceSymbolism, Language and the Body; Chapter Seven: THIS NATURE WHICH IS NOT ONE; Reapproaching Sexual Difference; Whitehead and Irigaray on the Problem of the 'One'; Nature is at least Two; Difference and Opposition; Gender and the Process of Becoming. The "Withness of the Body"; Conclusion; Chapter Eight: CAPITALISM, PROCESS AND ABSTRACTION; Marx on Capitalism; Abstractions in the Head; Abstractions in Reality; Value-Form; Conclusion; Back Matter; NOTES; Chapter One: A Culture of Thought
- The Bifurcation of Nature.
- Chapter Two: Introducing Whitehead's Philosophy -The Lure of WhiteheadChapter Three: 'A Thorough-Going Realism'
- Whitehead On Cause and Conformation; Chapter Four: The Value of Existence; Chapter Five: Societies, the Social and Subjectivity; Chapter Six: Language and the Body
- From Signification to Symbolism; Chapter Seven: This Nature Which Is Not One; Chapter Eight: Capitalism, Process and Abstraction; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.