The Emergence of Whitehead's Metaphysics, 1925-1929State University of New York Press, 30 jun 1985 - 368 pagina's A breathtaking detective story, this book charts the adventure of Whitehead's ideas in a remarkably detailed and careful reconstruction of his metaphysical views. Incorporating heretofore unpublished material from students' notes and correspondence, Professor Ford analyzes the order of composition of various portions of Whitehead's books, principally Science and the Modern World, Religion in the Making, and Process and Reality. Ford's reconstructive method is perfectly tailored to his subject, for Whitehead revised by inserting new material rather than altering or deleting the old. Thus Ford is able to date the sequence of the composition of many passages. In distinguishing these layers of articulation, he has pushed the techniques of "higher criticism" beyond anything the French structuralists and deconstructionists have dreamed of and chronicled an extraordinary intellectual biography. |
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The First Metaphysical Synthesis | 22 |
The Emergence of Temporal Atomicity | 51 |
Eternal Objects Immanent and Transcendent | 67 |
The Realm of Possibility | 76 |
Abstractive Hierarchies | 82 |
Aesthetic Synthesis and Superject in | 88 |
The Chapter on God | 96 |
The Giffords Draft | 177 |
The Final Revisions | 211 |
Recapitulation | 245 |
The Harvard Lectures for 192425 | 262 |
Time September 1926 | 303 |
The Harvard Lectures for the Fall | 309 |
The Metaphysical Principles | 323 |
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