Michael Halewood

Language and Process

Words, Whitehead and the World

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Produktbeschreibung

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 Irigaray, to view the world as 'in process'.

Produktdetails

• Intersections in Continental and Analytic Philosophy
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 135mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 228g
• ISBN-13: 9781474449113
• ISBN-10: 1474449115
• Artikelnr.: 60004674

Autorenporträt

Michael Halewood is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Essex. He is the author of Rethinking the Social through Durkheim, Marx, Weber and Whitehead (Anthem Press, 2014) and A. N. Whitehead and Social Theory: Tracing a Culture of Thought (Anthem Press, 2011). He is co-editor of Butler on Whitehead (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012). He is the translator of The Lure of Possibilities by Didier Debaise (Duke University Press, 2017).

Inhaltsangabe

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
Conclusion
Bibliography