Alfred North Whitehead METAPHYSICS Process Philosophy Science Religion Theology

by William A. Christian

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First edition

.no-subscribe { display: none} [contenteditable] { pointer-events: none; } An Interpretation of Whitehead’s Metaphysics by William A. Christian Published by Yale University Press, New Haven, 1959. First Edition. Very good hardcover, no dustjacket. Tight binding, solid spine, previous owner’s bookplate to front endpaper, clean unmarked text. 8vo, index, 419 pages. Offers a systematic analysis of Alfred North Whitehead’s complex philosophical system, a cornerstone of process metaphysics. Christian, a scholar of religion and philosophy, wrote this work during a period of renewed interest in Whitehead’s ideas, as mid-20th-century thinkers grappled with the implications of relativity and quantum mechanics for traditional metaphysics. Yale University Press, a leading academic publisher, issued this 419-page study to bridge Whitehead’s dense concepts—developed in works like “Process and Reality” (1929)—with a broader scholarly audience, reflecting the era’s push to reconcile science and philosophy. Christian’s book, lauded for its clarity, emerged as a key resource for understanding Whitehead’s event-based ontology. Structured into three main sections: “Actual Occasions,” “Eternal Objects,” and “God and the World.” Christian dissects Whitehead’s core ideas, such as the concreteness of actual occasions (spatiotemporally extended events), the role of eternal objects as abstract potentials, and God’s dual function as both a creative principle and a participant in the world’s becoming.

• Publisher: Yale University
• Year: 1959
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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