The Lure of Whitehead

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Once largely ignored the speculative philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead has assumed a new prominence in contemporary theory across the humanities and social sciences. Philosophers and artists literary critics and social theorists anthropologists and computer scientists have all embraced Whiteheads thought extending it through inquiries into the nature of life the problem of consciousness and the ontology of objects as well as into experiments in education and digital media. The Lure of Whitehead offers readers not only a comprehensive introduction to Whiteheads philosophy but also a demonstration of how his work advances our emerging understanding of life in the posthuman epoch. Contributors: Jeffrey A. Bell Southeastern Louisiana U; Nathan Brown U of California Davis; Peter Canning; Didier Debaise Free U of Brussels; Roland Faber Claremont Lincoln U; Michael Halewood U of Essex; Graham Harman American U in Cairo; Bruno Latour Sciences Po Paris; Erin Manning Concordia U Montreal; Steven Meyer Washington U; Luciana Parisi U of London; Keith Robinson U of Arkansas at Little Rock; Isabelle Stengers Free U of Brussels; James Williams U of Dundee.