Michael Halewood

Language and Process (eBook, PDF)

Words, Whitehead and the World

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Produktbeschreibung

Michael Halewood uses ideas from analytic philosophy and continental philosophy as well as social theory to look at how language relates to the world, and the world to language. He addresses important questions such as whether words are able to capture the world (nouns); whether the properties of things, such as colours, are real (adjectives); and how we can think about the world as process (verbs). Primarily using the work of Alfred North Whitehead, but also incorporating the ideas of Gilles Deleuze, John Dewey and Luce Irigaray, he argues that viewing both the world and language as 'in process' can help reframe and move beyond some enduring problems and shed new light for future research.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474449120
• Artikelnr.: 72431303

Autorenporträt

Michael Halewood is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Essex. He is the author of Rethinking the Social through Durkheim, Marx, Weber and Whitehead (Anthem Press, 2014) and A. N. Whitehead and Social Theory: Tracing a Culture of Thought (Anthem Press, 2011). He is co-editor of Butler on Whitehead (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012). He is the translator of The Lure of Possibilities by Didier Debaise (Duke University Press, 2017).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction: The Problem of Words and Things
2. Nouns, Names and Signs: From Frege to Saussure
3. Adjectives: The Properties of the World and the 'Bifurcation of
Nature'
4. Verbs: Deleuze on Infinitives, Events and Process
5. Adverbs: Dewey on the Qualities of Existence
6. Prepositions: Whitehead on the Withness of the Body
7. Gender and Personal Pronouns: She, He, It and They
8. Tone, Force and Rhetoric: Capitalism, Theology and Grammar
Conclusion
Bibliography