Marx And Whitehead

Author : Anne Fairchild Pomeroy
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780791485613

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Marx and Whitehead by Anne Fairchild Pomeroy Pdf

Marx and Whitehead boldly asks us to reconsider capitalism, not merely as an "economic system" but as a fundamentally self-destructive mode that, by its very nature and operation, undermines the cohesive fabric of human existence. Author Anne Fairchild Pomeroy asserts that it is impossible to appreciate fully the impact of Marx's critique of capitalism without understanding the philosophical system that underlies it. Alfred North Whitehead's work is used to forge a systematic link between process philosophy and dialectical materialism via the category of production. Whitehead's process thought brings Marx's philosophical vision into sharper focus. This union provides the grounds for Pomeroy's claim that the heart of Marx's critique of capitalism is fundamentally ontological, and that therefore the necessary condition for genuine human flourishing lies in overcoming the capitalist form of social relations.

Author : Russell L. Kleinbach,Karl Marx
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039242016

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Marx Via Process by Russell L. Kleinbach,Karl Marx Pdf

Author : Michael Halewood
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781783083688

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Rethinking the Social through Durkheim, Marx, Weber and Whitehead by Michael Halewood Pdf

According to some social theorists, we are ‘at the end of the social’. This book argues that such pronouncements may be premature, as we need to reengage with what sociologists have previously meant by ‘the social’. ‘Rethinking the Social’ is the first book to systematically analyse the different concepts of the social developed by Durkheim, Marx and Weber. It examines how the concept of the social became unproblematic for twentieth-century writers and suggests that debates surrounding this concept remain very much alive. Building on A. N. Whitehead’s work, Halewood develops a novel ‘philosophy of the social’.

Author : James L. Marsh
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438411989

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Process, Praxis, and Transcendence by James L. Marsh Pdf

Process, Praxis, and Transcendence is a North American philosophy of liberation that defends both metaphysics and philosophy of religion. The book moves from an existential phenomenology of the knowing and choosing subject through affirmation of a processive and liberating Christ to a critique and overcoming of neo-imperialism. Its ultimate theme explores what the appropriate theory and praxis of liberation is for those of us living "in the center of the empire" in North America and Western Europe.

Author : Brian G. Henning,William T. Myers,Joseph D. John
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780739190326

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Thinking with Whitehead and the American Pragmatists by Brian G. Henning,William T. Myers,Joseph D. John Pdf

Despite there being deep lines of convergence between the philosophies of Alfred North Whitehead, C. S. Peirce, William James, John Dewey, and other classical American philosophers, it remains an open question whether Whitehead is a pragmatist, and conversation between pragmatists and Whitehead scholars have been limited. Indeed, it is difficult to find an anthology of classical American philosophy that includes Whitehead’s writings. These camps began separately, and so they remain. This volume questions the wisdom of that separation, exploring their connections, both historical and in application. The essays in this volume embody original and creative work by leading scholars that not only furthers the understanding of American philosophy, but seeks to advance it by working at the intersection of experience and reality to incite novel and creative thought. This exploration is long overdue. Specific questions that are addressed are: Is Whitehead a pragmatist? What contrasts and affinities exist between American pragmatism and Whitehead’s thought? What new questions, strategies, and critiques emerge by juxtaposing their distinct perspectives?

Author : James Chambers
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783031409813

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Marx and Laozi by James Chambers Pdf

In this work the theories of Marx and Laozi are dialectically combined. The resulting synthesis is a positive materialist negation of Hegel’s idealist dialectics. Syntheses are presented for Marx and Laozi in ontology, metaphysics, epistemology, scientific method, ethics and politics: the full spectrum of their foundational principles. The book is an attempt to reconstruct a materialist interpretation of Laozi, which can be put to work for Marxist theory.

Author : Adam Nocek
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781452964805

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Molecular Capture by Adam Nocek Pdf

How computer animation technologies became vital visualization tools in the life sciences Who would have thought that computer animation technologies developed in the second half of the twentieth century would become essential visualization tools in today’s biosciences? This book is the first to examine this phenomenon. Molecular Capture reveals how popular media consumption and biological knowledge production have converged in molecular animations—computer simulations of molecular and cellular processes that immerse viewers in the temporal unfolding of molecular worlds—to produce new regimes of seeing and knowing. Situating the development of this technology within an evolving field of historical, epistemological, and political negotiations, Adam Nocek argues that molecular animations not only represent a key transformation in the visual knowledge practices of life scientists but also bring into sharp focus fundamental mutations in power within neoliberal capitalism. In particular, he reveals how the convergence of the visual economies of science and entertainment in molecular animations extends neoliberal modes of governance to the perceptual practices of scientific subjects. Drawing on Alfred North Whitehead’s speculative metaphysics and Michel Foucault’s genealogy of governmentality, Nocek builds a media philosophy well equipped to examine the unique coordination of media cultures in this undertheorized form of scientific media. More specifically, he demonstrates how governmentality operates across visual practices in the biosciences and the popular mediasphere to shape a molecular animation apparatus that unites scientific knowledge and entertainment culture. Ultimately, Molecular Capture proposes that molecular animation is an achievement of governmental design. It weaves together speculative media philosophy, science and technology studies, and design theory to investigate how scientific knowledge practices are designed through media apparatuses.

Author : Philip Clayton,Justin Heinzekehr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1940447054

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Organic Marxism by Philip Clayton,Justin Heinzekehr Pdf

This revolutionary book fuses the enduring legacy of socialism--government for the common good--with the best of the environmental movement and the newest insights from sustainability studies. The result is a manifesto--a roadmap forward in the face of the growing environmental catastrophe, which is the most complex crisis humanity has ever faced. American conservatives like to say that Marxism was destroyed by its opponents and by the mistakes of Marxist governments. Organic Marxism provides the definitive answer to this charge. As we approach the planet's limits, however, there is no other option but to shift to an organic, ecological civilization. Clayton and Heinzekehr show how scientists and economists, farmers and small business people, artists and religious leaders are coming together around the globe, building communities for the common good.

Author : Roland Faber
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474429597

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Rethinking Whitehead's Symbolism by Roland Faber Pdf

11 essays by leading Whitehead scholars re-examinae Whitehead's Barbour-Page lectures, published as the book Symbolism: Its Meaning and Effect in 1927, to give you exciting insights into the contemporary implications of Whitehead's symbolism in an era of new scientific, cultural and technological developments.

Author : Daniel A. Dombrowski
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-03
Category : Liberalism
ISBN : 9781474453424

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Process Philosophy and Political Liberalism by Daniel A. Dombrowski Pdf

Daniel A. Dombrowski brings together the thought of the 20th-century philosophy's greatest political liberal, John Rawls, with the thought of the great process philosophers, Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne. He shows that political liberalism is intimately linked with process philosophy, renaming it 'process liberalism'. He justifies this process liberalism in contrast to four potentially troublesome sources or influences: metaphysics, religion, right-wing politics and left-wing politics. Dombrowski engages a series of interlocutors and alternative positions including Franklin I. Gamwell, Timothy D. Snyder, Martin Heidegger and Karl Marx. In conclusion, he offers a compelling, intricate and resourceful argument for nonhuman animal rights based on Rawlsian principles, which in turn forms the basis of a future environmental ethics.

Author : Łukasz Lamża
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781443864909

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Recent Advances in the Creation of a Process-Based Worldview by Łukasz Lamża Pdf

Process thought is an important component of contemporary philosophy. Alfred North Whitehead’s organic philosophy has a special place in the landscape of process thinking, being detailed, precise and well-thought, and at the same time extremely visionary and far-reaching. The global community of process thinkers includes physicists, biologists, doctors, political scientists, educators, activists, philosophers, theologians and other people devoted to rethinking their disciplines in the light of process philosophy. This volume presents the cutting edge in the creation of a process worldview. Leading scholars from all over the world gathered to discuss how process thinking can inspire us to rethink our lives. Precise philosophical language and a unifying vision are applied to core issues, such as politics, society, education and religion. The book represents a bold move from academic philosophy into the realm of actual human lives.

Author : B. Ollman,T. Smith
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-02-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780230583818

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Dialectics for the New Century by B. Ollman,T. Smith Pdf

This anthology contains some of the more important Marxist thinkers now working on dialectics. As a whole the book is an unusual 'Introduction to Dialectics', a systematic restatement of what it is and how to use it, a survey of most of the main debates in the field, and a good picture of the current state of the art of dialectics.

Author : Jorge Luis Nobo
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1986-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438414805

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Whitehead's Metaphysics of Extension and Solidarity by Jorge Luis Nobo Pdf

At the base of Whitehead's philosophy of organism is a vision of the solidarity of all final actualities. Each actuality is a discrete individual enjoying autonomous self-determination, yet each also requires all other actualities as essential components and partial determinants of its own nature. This vision of universal solidarity, Nobo demonstrates, is the fundamental metaphysical thesis whose truth the categories and principles of Whitehead's philosophy were expressly designed to elucidate. The received interpretations of Whitehead's thought, Nobo shows, have ignored the mutual relevance of the solidarity thesis and the organic categoreal scheme and, for that reason, have grossly misrepresented many of Whitehead's most important metaphysical doctrines. Contending that the difficult tasks of interpreting and developing Whitehead's metaphysics presuppose an understanding of the solidarity thesis, Nobo explores that thesis and the metaphysical categories and principles most relevant to its elucidation. In the process, he not only corrects many misinterpretations but also develops important metaphysical doctrines that Whitehead neglected to make sufficiently explicit in his published writings. It is precisely in terms of the neglected doctrine of eternal extensive continuity, Nobo demonstrates, that the more puzzling aspects of the solidarity thesis are satisfactorily explained. He then shows that the extensional solidarity of all final actualities is an essential ingredient of the generalized conception of experience on which Whitehead builds his ontology, cosmology, and epistemology.

Author : F. B. Wallack
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1980-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438423111

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The Epochal Nature of Process in Whitehead's Metaphysics by F. B. Wallack Pdf

"While my book attempts to reflect the full range of scholarly debate, I have also attempted to make it useful to anyone interested in Whitehead. To this end, I have introduced the Whiteheadian terms one by one, explaining each in the light of my interpretation, and I have used examples wherever possible. I try to show that Whitehead intended his philosophy have a place in our lives by reshaping our common conceptions, and that he did not intend it to be relegated to purely abstract or esoteric application." — F. Bradford Wallack The twentieth century has seen the greatest innovations in philosophical cosmology since Newton and Descartes, and Alfred North Whitehead was the first and greatest of the philosophers to work out these innovations in systematic ways. In a book that will be controversial in the philosophical community, F. Bradford Wallack argues that interpretations widely accepted by Whiteheadians need revaluation because these interpretations are based on materialist and substantialist assumptions that Whitehead sought to replace. Specifically, she proposes a thorough revision of accepted interpretations of Whitehead's concept of the actual entity. Wallack then elucidates Whitehead's ideas in order of their increasing dependence upon other basic Whiteheadian terms to complete the study of Whiteheadian time and to clarify its purpose within the cosmology of Process and Reality. Whitehead's philosophy then emerges as more intelligible and cohesive than is generally believed.

Author : Michael Halewood
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474449120

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Language and Process by Michael Halewood Pdf

Michael Halewood uses ideas from analytic philosophy, continental philosophy and social theory to look at how language relates to the world, and the world to language. He primarily draws on the work of Alfred North Whitehead, and incorporating the ideas of Gilles Deleuze, John Dewey and Luce Irigaray, to view the world as 'in process'.