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Whitehead's Pancreativism: Jamesian Applications

By Michel Weber

Book information

Publisher
de Gruyter
Year
2010
ISBN
9783110329766, 9783110329643
DOI
10.1515/9783110329766
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1083774 bytes)
Series
Process Thought; 8
Pages
286\305
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-07-23 04:44:03

Description

Whitehead's Pancreativism: The Basics has provided tools to understand Whitehead secundum Whitehead. We now seek to bring him in dialogue with James. 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. 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. 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. It is time to rediscover James from the perspective of his radical empiricism.

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