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Pierfrancesco Basile - Whitehead´s Metaphysics of Power: Reconstructing Modern Philosophy - 9781474404143 - V9781474404143
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Whitehead´s Metaphysics of Power: Reconstructing Modern Philosophy

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Description for Whitehead´s Metaphysics of Power: Reconstructing Modern Philosophy Hardback. Pierfrancesco Basile looks at myths: where they came from and why Whitehead rejects them. In doing so, Basile makes it possible to grasp the main concepts of Whitehead's process metaphysics - especially the crucial notion that being and power are one and the same - and how it is rooted in the modern philosophical tradition. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPJ; HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
At the beginning of Process and Reality (1929), Alfred North Whitehead condemns a list of beliefs, which he thinks are widely held by contemporary philosophers, as dangerously mistaken. Pierfrancesco Basile is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Bern, Switzerland. Pierfrancesco Basile looks at these myths: where they came from and why Whitehead rejects them. In doing so, Basile makes it possible to grasp the main concepts of Whitehead's process metaphysics - especially the crucial notion that being and power are one and the same - and how it is rooted in the modern philosophical tradition.

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Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474404143
SKU
V9781474404143
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About Pierfrancesco Basile
Pierfrancesco Basile is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Bern, Switzerland.

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