Process, Reality, and the Power of Symbols: Thinking with A.N. Whitehead [Hardcover]

Following A. N. Whitehead, this book takes up the principal challenge facing a natural philosopher who wishes to engage with Nature while rescuing both Life and Thought from materialistic approaches which rob them of their 'quicknesses'. Selecting certain insights and intuitions from the writings of Peirce, Coleridge, Deleuze and Nietzsche, the author proffers a remedy for the pervasive nihilism of 'the moderns' which illustrates Deleuze's suggestion that philosophy should be imaged as a dynamic collage that is forever in the making.Science and the Appropriation of Reality Signs, Symbols and Metaphysical Imaginaries Minding, Imaging and Symbolizing A Nearly Comprehensive Naturalism In Search of a 'True Naturalism' Putting Life Back into Nature On Learning Good Sense Against 'Conceptual Idolatry' Epilogue: Notes for a Cultural Therapy

1 One of a new generation of works which fuse Deleuze with Whitehead