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A. N. Whitehead and Social Theory: Tracing a Culture of Thought

A. N. Whitehead and Social Theory: Tracing a Culture of Thought

Halewood, Michael

Paperback

Series: Key Issues in Modern Sociology

PhilosophyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1783080698
ISBN13: 9781783080694
Publisher: Anthem Pr
Published: Oct 1 2013
Pages: 198
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The contemporary importance of A. N. Whitehead (1861-1947) lies in his direct yet productive challenge to the culture of thought inherent in modernity, a challenge that suffuses science, social theory and philosophy alike. Unlike some of the more destructive aspects of postmodernism and poststructuralism, Whitehead's diagnosis of the conceptual fault lines of the modern era does not entail a passive relativism. Instead, he calls for a renewal of our concepts, offering a positive, philosophical approach based on becoming, relativity, and a reconception of subjectivity and the social. This book outlines Whitehead's philosophy, using it to reorient a range of specific questions and topics within contemporary social theory, namely: the relation of language and the body; the relationship between the individual and society; sexual difference; conceptions of nature; the question of realism; the concept of the social; and capitalism as a process. It also provides detailed analyses and comparisons of Whitehead's concepts with those of Judith Butler on materiality and the body, and of Luce Irigaray on nature, essentialism and sexual difference.

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