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Process Philosophy: A Reader

Autor Dr Keith Robinson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 noi 2020

Descoperim în Process Philosophy un format de antologie esențial, fiind primul volum care sistematizează fragmente fundamentale din scrierile originale ce definesc filosofia procesului. Editura Bloomsbury Academic propune o lucrare de referință pentru mediul universitar, reușind să pună în dialog tradiția continentală cu cea anglofonă. Apreciem în mod deosebit efortul editorului Dr Keith Robinson de a trasa o linie de continuitate de la rădăcinile grecești ale gândirii — începând cu fragmentele lui Heraclit — până la noile dezbateri despre materialitate din secolul XXI.

Structura volumului este riguroasă, debutând cu o introducere semnată de Nicholas Rescher care situează disciplina în contextul metafizicii actuale. Prima parte analizează sursele antice și clasice, oferind nu doar texte de bază de la Platon și Aristotel, ci și perspective critice fundamentale, precum paradoxurile lui Zenon sau critica lui Parmenide asupra timpului. Această abordare dialectică este elementul distinctiv al cărții: spre deosebire de alte compendii, aici auzim și vocile detractorilor filosofiei procesului, de la pozitivismul logic al lui A.J. Ayer la ontologia orientată spre obiect a lui Graham Harman.

Notăm cu interes că Process Philosophy servește ca o alternativă cuprinzătoare la Beyond Whitehead (de Jakub Dziadkowiec) pentru cursurile de ontologie și istoria filosofiei. În timp ce volumul lui Dziadkowiec se concentrează pe dezvoltările contemporane ale școlii whiteheadiene, lucrarea de față are avantajul unei perspective istorice mult mai vaste și al includerii sistematice a criticilor, oferind studenților un instrument de lucru echilibrat și complet.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781474244350
ISBN-10: 1474244351
Pagini: 480
Dimensiuni: 189 x 246 mm
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Această antologie este indispensabilă pentru studenții și cercetătorii care doresc să înțeleagă dinamismul realității dincolo de metafizica substanței. Cititorul câștigă acces direct la texte primare greu de găsit într-un singur volum, beneficiind de o hartă conceptuală care leagă ideile lui Bergson sau Deleuze de fundamentele lor antice. Este un instrument critic ce facilitează o înțelegere profundă a modului în care devenirea a fost teoretizată și contestată de-a lungul secolelor.


Despre autor

Dr Keith Robinson este un specialist recunoscut în filosofia europeană contemporană, cu un interes academic profund pentru lucrările lui Deleuze și Whitehead. Expertiza sa în filosofia procesului se reflectă în modul meticulos în care a selectat și editat acest volum pentru Bloomsbury Publishing, reușind să creeze o punte între tradițiile filosofice divergente. Activitatea sa academică se concentrează pe reevaluarea ontologiei procesuale în contextul noilor mișcări teoretice, fiind o voce autorizată în dezbaterile despre natura schimbării și a timpului în gândirea modernă.


Caracteristici

The first book to provide complete and comprehensive coverage of process thought right through from its historical origins to its contemporary usages. It covers both the analytic and continental traditions

Notă biografică

Keith Robinsonis Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Arkansas, USA. He is the author ofDeleuze, Whitehead and Bergson: Rhizomatic Connections(2009).

Descriere scurtă

Process Philosophy: A Reader is the first text to bring together excerpts of original writings from right across process thought. Keith Robinson draws from both the continental and anglophone traditions and spans a vast amount of history: starting with the rootedness of process thinking in Greek thought and moving right through to the new materiality debates in contemporary thought.

The first text to include primary texts from the critics of process philosophy in the text itself, we don't only hear from Whitehead, Bergson, Marx, and Deleuze but also from critics such as Jacques Ranciere, Graham Harman, A.J. Ayers, and Heidegger.

An engaging introduction to the key thinkers and critics in the history of process thought.


Cuprins

PREFACEACKNOWLEDGEMENTSGENERAL INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTIONN. Rescher - On Situating Process PhilosophyPART 1 - ANCIENT AND CLASSICAL SOURCESIntroduction1. Heraclitus Heraclitus - Selection of Fragments and TestimoniaJ.Barnes - The Natural Philosophy of HeraclitusD. Graham - Heraclitus as a Process Philosopher(alternatives: James Wayne Dye - Heraclitus and the Future of Process PhilosophyG.S Kirk - Natural Change in Heraclitus)Critics: Parmenides Parmenides - Poem on BeingF.M. Cornford - The Elimination of Time by ParmenidesCritics: Zeno of Elea Zeno - Selection of ParadoxesB. Russell - Zeno's ParadoxesH. Bergson - Zeno's Paradoxes2. Plato Plato- Selections from Timaeus, Parmenides, Cratylus, Theatetus, SophistRobert Bolton - Plato's Distinction Between Being and BecomingT. Irwin - Plato's Heracleiteanism(Alternative H. Cherniss)3. Aristotle Aristotle - Selections from the Categories, Metaphysics and PhysicsG.E.L Owen - Aristotle on TimeM.L. Gill - Aristotle on SubstancePART 2 - MODERN SOURCESCONTINENTALIntroduction1. Schelling Schelling - Selections from First Outline of a System for the Philosophy of Nature and On the History of Modern PhilosophyArran Gare - From Kant to Schelling to Process MetaphysicsCritics: Hegel - 'Preface', Phenomenology of Spirit2. Hegel Hegel - Selections from Phenomenology of Spirit; Encyclopedia; Philosophy of Nature.John Burbridge - Concept and Time in Hegel (Alternative George Lucas )Catherine Malabou - The Future of Hegel - Plasticity, Temporality, DialecticCritics: Deleuze - Selection from Nietzsche and Philosophy3. NietzscheNietzsche - Selections from Twilight of the Idols, Will to Power.John Richardson - Nietzsche on Time and BecomingRobin Small - Being, Becoming and Time in Nietzsche. Critics: Malcolm Bull - Selections from Anti-Nietzsche4. BergsonBergson - Selection from Creative Evolution, Creative Mind. Introduction to MetaphysicsMilic Capek - Process and Personality in Bergson's ThoughtJohn Mullarkey - Bergson and the Language of ProcessCritics: Bachelard - Dialectic of Duration, selectionsHorkhemer - On Bergson's Metaphysics of TimeRussell - The Philosophy of BergsonA. Grunbaum - The Meaning of Time (The Status of Temporal Becoming)(Choose 2 from above)5. DeleuzeDeleuze - Selections from Logic of Sense, Difference and Repetition, The Method of Dramatization.Keith Robinson - Deleuze and Process PhilosophyJames Williams - Identity and Time in Gilles Deleuze's Process PhilosophyCritics: Badiou - Selections from The Clamour of Being, Being and Event.PART 3 - MODERN SOURCES ANGLO-AMERICANIntroduction1. C.S PeircePeirce - Selections from The Writings of Charles Peirce, The Essential PeirceCarl Hausman - Charles Peirce's Evolutionary Realism as a Process PhilosophyCritics: McTaggart - The Unreality of Time.2. JamesJames - Selections from Principles of Psychology; Essays in Radical Empiricism; Some Problems in PhilosophyRichard Field - James and the Epochal Theory of TimeBertrand Helm - William James on the Nature of Time(Alternate: Stephen Daniel - Fringes and Transitive States in William James' Concept of the Stream of Thought)Critics: J.P. Moreland - An Enduring Self: The Achilles Heel of Process Philosophy3. Alexander Alexander - Selections from Space, Time and DeityEmily Thomas - Space, Time and Samuel AlexanderDorothy Emmet - Whitehead and AlexanderCritics: Sprigge - Selections from The Vindication of Absolute Idealism, The Unreality of Time. 4. WhiteheadWhitehead - Modes of Thought; Process and Reality; Adventures in Ideas; Essays in Science and PhilosophyJ. Nobo - Whitehead's Principle of ProcessCritics: Graham Harman - Whitehead as Anti-Process Thinker.D. Williams - The Myth of Passage(Alternate: James Feibleman - Why Whitehead is not a 'Process' Philosopher)5. Sellars Sellars - Selections from Foundations for a Metaphysics of Pure Process, Philosophy and the Scientific Image of Man.J.Seibt - Processes in the Manifest and Scientific ImageCritics: JJC Smart - Sellars on Process (Monist)P. Strawson - selections from IndividualsPART 4 - PROCESS AND SCIENCEIntroductionWhitehead - Selections from Science and the Modern WorldMilic Capek - The Second Scientific Revolution1. Process and PhysicsDavid Bohm - Time, Space and the Implicate Order, Selections from Wholeness and the Implicate Order.Henry Stapp - Whiteheadian Process and Quantum Theory(Alternate Shimon Malin - Whitehead and Quantum Physics)Critic: Julian Barbour - The Nature of Time2. Process and BiologyJohn Dupre - The Constituents of Life/Selection from Processes of LifeBrain Goodwin - Is Morphogenesis an Intrinsically Robust Process?(Alternate: Richard Lewontin/S.Kauffman)Critic: Daniel Dennett - Evolution as an Algorithmic Process3. Process and ChemistryIlya Prigogine - Selections from Order out of ChaosR. Stein - Towards a Process Philosophy of Chemistry (Alternate: P. Needham: Continuants and Processes in Chemistry)Critic: Robin Le Poidevin - A Combinatorial Argument for the Ontological Reduction of Chemistry 4. Process and NeuroscienceMaria Pachalsky - Towards a Process Neuropsychology: Microgenetic Theory and Brain ScienceJason W Brown - Foundations of Cognitive MetaphysicsGerald Edelman - Neural DarwinismCritic: Patricia Churchland - Computation and the Brain5. Process and Cognitive ScienceMark Bickhard - Mind as ProcessMark Bickhard and Richard Campbell - Physicalism, Energence and Downward CausationCritics: Jaegwon Kim - Emergence: Core Ideas and Issues(alternative: Zenon Pykyshyn - What is Cognitive Science?).PART 5 - PROCESS AND HISTORYIntroduction1. Marx - Selections from The German Ideology, Grundrisse, A Critique of Political Economy (preface).Hamrick and Marsh - Marx and Whitehead: Towards a Political MetaphysicsSean Sayers - Marxism and the Dialectical Method(Alternate: Anne Pomeroy)Critics: G.A.Cohen - Selection from Karl Marx's Theory of HistoryKarl Popper - from The Open Society and its Enemies2. Collingwood - Selections from the Idea of History, Libellus de Generatione (one copy at the Bodleian library in Oxford) Spengler and the Theory of Historical Cycles, Speculum Mentis, AutobiographyLouis Mink - Collingwood's Historicism: A Dialectic of ProcessW. Jan Van Der Dussen - Collingwood's Idea of Progress(Alternate: Stein Hegleby)Critics: A.J. Ayer, from Philosophy in the 20th century3. A. Toynbee - Selections from A Study of History (abridged version), A Study of History: What the book is for, how the book took shape.C. Kerslake - Becoming against History: Deleuze, Toynbee and Vitalist historiographyN. Rescher - Trapped Within History? A Process Philosophical Refutation of Historical Relativism. Critics: Pieter Geyl - Toynbee's System of CivilizationsPitirim Sorokin - Arnold J Toynbee's Philosophy of History4. Foucault - Nietzsche, Genealogy, History, Selections from Archaeology of Knowledge, Discipline and Punish, History of Sexuality. P. Veyne - Foucault Revolutionizes HistoryM.Poster - Foucault, the Present and HistoryCritics: Habermas - The Critique of Reason and the Human Sciences - Michel Foucault5. Manuel DeLanda - Assemblage Theory and Human History, Selections from A Thousand Years of Non-Linear HistoryCritic: G. Harman - DeLanda's Ontology: Assemblage and RealismPART 6 - PROCESS AND AESTHETICSIntroduction1. Nietzsche - Selections from Birth of Tragedy, Gay Science, Will to PowerChristophe Cox - Nietzsche, Dionysus and the Ontology of MusicCritics: Heidegger, Selections from Nietzsche volumes (Will to Power as Art) and Contributions 2. J. Dewey - Selections from Art as ExperienceR. Shusterman - Dewey's Art as ExperienceCritics: B. Croce - On the Aesthetics of Dewey3. S. Langer - Selections from Problems of Art. Feeling and FormRolf Lachman - From Metaphysics to Art and back: The Relevance of Suzanne K. Langer's Philosophy for Process MetaphysicsF. Kruse - Vital Rhythm and Temporal Form in Langer and Dewey(V. Colapietro - Suzanne Langer on Artistic creativity and creations (Spinks and Deeley, Semiotics, Peter Lang, 1997).Critic: R. Auxier - Suzanne Langer on Symbols and Analogy: A Case of Misplaced Concreteness?4. C. Hartshorne - The Aesthetic Matrix of Value." Creative Synthesis and Philosophic Method. London: SCM Press Ltd., 1970; LaSalle: Open Court, 1970, pp. 303-322"Duality in Aesthetics." The Philosophy and Psychology of Sensation. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1934, pp. 159-190."Expression and Association." In Artistic Expression, ed., John Hospers, New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1971, pp. 204-217.The Aesthetics of Birdsong(3 of the above). George R. Lucas, Jr.: Hartshorne and the Development of Process PhilosophiesD. Dombrowski - The Aesthetics of Charles Hartshorne (from 'The Divine Beauty').Critics: John Hospers - Hartshorne's Aesthetics (Library of Living Philosophers Vol XX Open Court, 1991). 5. G. Deleuze & F. Guattari - Selections from Kafka, A Thousand Plateaus, What is Philosophy?R. Bogue - "Art and Territory" or "Minority, Territory, Music" or " Deleuze's Aesthetics of Force"Critics: J. Ranciere - "Is There a Deleuzian Aesthetics?' "Deleuze, Bartleby and the Formula" from the Flesh of Words (Stanford, 2004).