![]() ![]() James’s Mystical Body in the Light of the Transmarginal Field 7. The Polysemiality of the Concept of “Pure Experience” 5. Introduction-Whitehead’s Reading of James and Its Context 2. Table of Contents Abbreviations-Whitehead Abbreviations-James 0. I submit that it is time to rediscover James from the perspective of his radical empiricism. This double interpretational shift has allowed James to keep a fair amount of visibility on the academic scene but, over the years, it has significantly obliterated his vision-just as Whitehead has been saved from oblivion by theologians. After one hundred years of scholarship, it appears that James’s legacy has mainly been studied from the perspective of his own blend of pragmatism and that this blend has moreover chiefly been put into dialogue with Peirce and analytic philosophy at large. It will be a pragmatic dialogue looking for two types of synergy: to establish the relevance of a Jamesian background to read Whitehead, and to adumbrate how Whitehead can help us understand the stakes of James’s works. ![]() We now seek to bring him in dialogue with James. Whitehead's Pancreativism-The Basics has provided tools to understand Whitehead secundum Whitehead. These essays give the opportunity to travel through most aspects of Whitehead’s legacy: anthropology, ecology, education, epistemology, metaphysics, psychology, political theory and relativity physics. 40 €) Drawing upon the major Harvard works -Science and the Modern World (1925), Process and Reality (1929) and Adventures of Ideas (1933)-, the essays gathered here on the occasion of the creation of the Applied Process Metaphysics Summer Institute, seek, first, to introduce into Whitehead’s thought by clarifying what is at stake in his philosophy and by providing a synoptic vision of his key categories in light of their historical development and, second, to foster a creative dialogue among all participants. An appraisal of the systemic (metaphysical or otherwise) status of the late works of Whitehead raises fascinating questions about the relationship between categoreal frameworks (like that which occurs in Process and Reality), and the experiential grounding and meaning of systematic generalizations (such as occurs in Adventures of Ideas, Modes of. Applied Process Metaphysics Summer Institute Memorandum, Louvain-la-Neuve, Les Éditions Chromatika, 2010. "Ronny Desmet & Michel Weber (edited by), Whitehead. ![]()
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