Whitehead and Continental Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century - Dislocations

This book explores how thinking with Alfred North Whitehead and various continental philosophers can advance ideas about sustainability and civilization writ large. Contributors employ Whitehead and one or more continental thinkers around a given topic, whether philosophical or social, to produce the dislocations necessary for generating new ideas.

List of contents

Introduction: Jeremy Fackenthal

Part 1: Technological and Systematic Dislocations

Chapter 1. Creativity and Adversity

William Hammrick

Chapter 2. Interrogating the Quantified Self: The Technological Reinterpretation of Causal Efficacy

Bo Eberle

Chapter 3. Nerfed: Complex Systems and Whiteheadian Social Activism

J. R. Hustwit and Carl Dyke

Part 2: Human/Nonhuman Dislocations

Chapter 4. Process Philosophy and Neo-Materialism: Nomadic Subjectivity and Evanescing toward Sustainability

Jeremy Fackenthal

Chapter 5. Syrian Life on the Edge: Engaging an Ontology of Immanence

Deena M. Lin

Chapter 6. Conceptual Prehensions and Worlds of Experience: Whitehead and Uexküll on the Nonhuman Subject

Tano Posteraro

Part 3: Time, the World, and Abstraction

Chapter 7. Philosophy against Abstraction: Whitehead and Deleuze

Kris Klotz

Chapter 8. Power in Relation: Foucault, Whitehead, Deleuze

Elijah Prewitt-Davis

Chapter 9. Taking Aim at the Present: Whitehead, Continental Philosophy and the Bifurcation of Nature

Keith Robinson

About the author

Jeremy D. Fackenthal is managing director for the Institute for Ecological Civilization and serves as adjunct faculty in the humanities for Vincennes University.

Product details

• Authors: Jeremy D. Fackenthal
• Assisted by: Jeremy D. Fackenthal (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9781498595124
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-9512-4
• No. of pages: 198
• Series: Contemporary Whitehead Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Analytic, PHILOSOPHY / Individual Philosophers, Modern philosophy: since c 1800, Analytical philosophy & Logical Positivism