Book series: Contemporary Whitehead Studies

This book examines how the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, a speculative philosopher from the first half of the twentieth century, converses and entangles itself with continental philosophers of the… Read More »Whitehead and Continental Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century: Dislocations

As with any rich philosophical tradition in a period of intensive growth, process philosophy may seem confusing to the uninitiated, or even to the initiated. There is simply so much… Read More »Beyond Whitehead: Recent Advances in Process Thought

The present volume endeavors to make a contribution to contemporary Whitehead studies by clarifying his axiological process metaphysics, including his theory of values, concept of aesthetic experience, and doctrine of… Read More »Tragic Beauty in Whitehead and Japanese Aesthetics

Metaphysics—or the grand narratives about reality that shape a community—has historically been identified as one of the primary oppressive factors in violence against animals, the environment, and other subordinated populations.… Read More »Creaturely Cosmologies: Why Metaphysics Matters for Animal and Planetary Liberation

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… Read More »Thinking with Whitehead and the American Pragmatists: Experience and Reality

The Divine Manifold is a postmodern enquiry in intersecting themes of the concept and reality of multiplicity in a chaosmos that does not refuse a dimension of theopoetics, but rather… Read More »The Divine Manifold

If there is a central conceptual framework that has reliably borne the weight of modern physics as it ascends into the twenty-first century, it is the framework of quantum mechanics.… Read More »Foundations of Relational Realism: A Topological Approach to Quantum Mechanics and the Philosophy of Nature

This volume is based on the first set of formal conversations which brings together the dynamic philosophies of two eminent thinkers: Judith Butler and Alfred North Whitehead. Each has drawn… Read More »Butler on Whitehead: On the Occasion