Speculative Empiricism: Revisiting Whitehead (Midcentury Modern Writers) (Speculative Realism)

by Isabelle Stengers

Tomas Joseph Weber (Translator) and Didier Debaise (Preface)

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A radically new philosophy of experience and speculation, based on a reading of Whitehead's
Process and Reality
Can experience be thought systematically without transforming the richness of the world as it is lived into reductive philosophical generalities? Can the method of empiricism ever be reconciled with a method of systematic cosmological speculation? Didier Debaise's reading of Whitehead shows clearly what a philosophy that makes this possible looks like, how it works and what is at stake. He focuses in on Whitehead's attempt to construct a metaphysical system of everything in the universe that exists whilst simultaneously claiming that it can account for every element of our experience: everything enjoyed and perceived, willed or thought.
  • ISBN13 9781474423045
  • Publish Date 30 September 2017
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Edinburgh University Press
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 224
  • Language English