Whitehead's Metaphysics of Power: Reconstructing Modern Philosophy

by Pierfrancesco Basile

Book Overview

At the beginning of his magnum opus, Process and Reality (1929), Whitehead lists a series of beliefs which he thinks are widely held by contemporary philosophers. They are all condemned as dangerously mistaken.
What are these myths? Why are they rejected? In the works of which modern thinker did they arise? What precisely went wrong? At what stage in the development of Western thought did this happen?
By tackling these questions,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474437400
• ISBN13: 9781474437400
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"