Language and Process: Words, Whitehead and the World

by Michael Halewood

Book Overview

Michael Halewood uses ideas from analytic philosophy and continental philosophy as well as social theory to look at how language relates to the world, and the world to language. He addresses important questions such as whether words are able to capture the world (nouns); whether the properties of things, such as colours, are real (adjectives); and how we can think about the world as process (verbs). Primarily using the work of Alfred North Whitehead,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474449107
• ISBN13: 9781474449106
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.7"