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Process and Reality: An Essay In Cosmology
by Alfred North Whitehead
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No Library Distinctions, Slight toning, else content appears as unread and unblemished with blue cloth covered boards displaying no significant surface/edge wear. DJ displays moderate surface/edge wear as shown with repaired chipping and small tears.
An exceptional example. One of the major philosophical texts of the 20th century, Process and Reality is based on Alfred North Whitehead's influential lectures that he delivered at the University of Edinburgh in the 1920s on process philosophy. Whitehead's master work in philosophy, Process and Reality propounds a system of speculative philosophy, known as process philosophy, in which the various elements of reality into a consistent relation to each other. It is also an exploration of some of the preeminent thinkers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, such as Descartes, Newton, Locke, and Kant.
This book is from a 100 year old Jewish Temple library. Many books are from the 19th Century. Books were not written in at that time, instead an index card with info. Am enclosing that card for you. Enjoy.
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In philosophy, especially metaphysics, the book Process and Reality by Alfred North Whitehead sets out its author's philosophy of organism, also called process philosophy. The book, published in 1929, is a revision of the Gifford Lectures he gave in 1927-28. Process philosophy lays the groundwork for a paradigm of subjectivity, which Whitehead calls a "completed metaphysical language. " (p.
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- Title
- Process and Reality: An Essay In Cosmology
- Author
- Alfred North Whitehead
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+++
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Ed, 1st Prtg
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Macmillan Co.,
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- October 1929
- Pages
- 545 Rough Cut
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Philosophy
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