Lately, I've been reading (and tweeting about) Whitehead. I'm about 100 pages into Stengers' book. It's fantastic. Thinking with Whitehead — Isabelle Stengershttps://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674416970#.XriIp5Ekn2I.twitter …
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Replying to @evantthompson
Just spent 2 yrs. slogging through Process and Reality. What's good in Whitehead is mostly borrowed from Bergson and James. What's innovative—his platonic realm of eternal objects, geometry like axioms, and deux ex machina God—not so hot.
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Whitehead takes from Bergson and James, but has many original insights and analyses that go much further, especially when he's interacting with science. I find this especially in The Concept of Nature, and Science and the Modern World.
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I think Isabelle Stengers lays this out quite well in her book. I'm not a fan of some of his idiosyncratic terminology, especially in Process & Reality, but I find it illuminating to see what he's trying to express and why he's trying to do so
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