Beyond metaphysics? : explorations in Alfred North Whitehead's late thought

Cover\n......Page 1
Title Page\n......Page 4
Copyright Page\n......Page 5
Table of Contents\n......Page 6
The Contemporary Whitehead Studies\n......Page 9
Preface\n......Page 11
Acknowledgments\n......Page 16
Abbreviations......Page 17
 INTRODUCTION: Whitehead’s Other Copernican Turn\n......Page 18
Part One: Complexities of System, Life, and Novelty\n......Page 28
ONE: Toward a Metaphysics of Expression\n......Page 29
TWO: Renewing Speculation: The Systematic Aim of Whitehead’s Philosophic Cosmology\n......Page 43
THREE: Beyond Metaphysics?—A Historiographical Approach to Whitehead’s Speculative Philosophy\n......Page 61
FOUR: Citing the Paradox: Probing the Systematization of Whitehead as Philosopher Subject\n......Page 76
FIVE: Before Metaphysics: Modes of Thought as a Prequel to Whitehead’s “Trilogy”\n......Page 92
SIX: Immanence and Incompleteness: Whitehead’s Late Metaphysics\n......Page 106
Part Two: Depths of Nature, Order, and Organicity\n......Page 123
SEVEN: The Organism of Forms in Later Whitehead\n......Page 124
EIGHT: Beyond Dogmatic Finality: Whitehead and the Laws of Nature\n......Page 138
NINE: Alfred North Whitehead’s Receptacle......Page 159
TEN: Contingency and Whitehead’s Metaphysics of Experience\n......Page 177
ELEVEN: The Web of Life and the Constitution of Human Identity: Rethinking Nature as the Main Issue of Whitehead’s Late Metaphysics......Page 193
Part Three: Evocations of Value, Beauty, and Concern\n......Page 210
TWELVE: Re-Centering Process Thought: Recovering Beauty in A. N. Whitehead’s Late Work\n......Page 211
THIRTEEN: The Self-Evidence of Civilization\n......Page 225
FOURTEEN: Fact, Values, Individuals, and Others: Towards a Metaphysics of Value\n......Page 236
FIFTEEN: Self-enjoyment and Concern: On Whitehead and Levinas\n......Page 257
 SIXTEEN: Provocative Expression: Transitions In and From Metaphysics in Whitehead’s Later Work\n......Page 266
SEVENTEEN: The Dream of Solomon\n......Page 287
Works Cited......Page 298
About the Authors......Page 319
Index......Page 323