Whitehead's Radically Different Postmodern Philosophy - An Argument for Its Contemporary Relevence

Informationen zum Autor David Ray Griffin is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy of Religion at the Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Graduate University in California. His many books include Religion and Scientific Naturalism: Overcoming the Conflicts , also published by SUNY Press. Klappentext Examines the postmodern implications of Whitehead's metaphysical system. Postmodern philosophy is often dismissed as unintelligible, self-contradictory, and as a passing fad with no contribution to make to the problems faced by philosophers in our time. While this characterization may be true of the type of philosophy labeled postmodern in the 1980s and 1990s, David Ray Griffin argues that Alfred North Whitehead had formulated a radically different type of postmodern philosophy to which these criticisms do not apply. Griffin shows the power of Whitehead's philosophy in dealing with a range of contemporary issues-the mind-body relation, ecological ethics, truth as correspondence, the relation of time in physics to the (irreversible) time of our lives, and the reality of moral norms. He also defends a distinctive dimension of Whitehead's postmodernism, his theism, against various criticisms, including the charge that it is incompatible with relativity theory.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: David Ray Griffin
• Edition: State University of New York Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 01.01.2008
• EAN: 9780791470503
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-7050-3
• Pages: 303
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Thèmes: SUNY Series in Philosophy (Pap; SUNY Series in Philosophy (Pap; Suny Philosophy
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Philosophie, religion > Philosophie: général, ouvrages de référence; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Philosophie