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Language and process words, Whitehead and the world /

Michael Halewood uses ideas from analytic philosophy, continental philosophy and social theory to look at how language relates to the world, and the world to language. He primarily draws on the work of Alfred North Whitehead, and incorporating the ideas of Gilles Deleuze, John Dewey and Luce Irigara...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Halewood, Michael (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]
Colección:Intersections in continental and analytic philosophy
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. Introduction: The Problem of Words and Things; 2. Nouns, Names and Signs: From Frege to Saussure; 3. Adjectives: The Properties of the World and the 'Bifurcation of Nature'; 4. Verbs: Deleuze on Infinitives, Events and Process; 5. Adverbs: Dewey on the Qualities of Existence; 6. Prepositions: Whitehead on the Withness of the Body; 7. Gender and Personal Pronouns: She, He, It and They; 8. Tone, Force and Rhetoric: Capitalism, Theology and Grammar; 9. Conclusion; Bibliography.