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Butler on Whitehead: On the Occasion
Author(s): Roland Faber (Editor), Michael Halewood (Editor), Deena Lin (Editor)
- Publisher: Lexington Books (UK)
- Publication Date: 22 Mar. 2012
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 334 pages
- ISBN-10: 073917276X
- ISBN-13: 9780739172766
Book Description
This volume is based on the first set of formal conversations which brings together the dynamic philosophies of two eminent thinkers: Judith Butler and Alfred North Whitehead. Each has drawn from a wide palette of disciplines to develop distinctive theories of becoming, of syntactical violence, and creative opportunities of limitation. In bringing together internationally renowned interpreters of Butler and Whitehead from a variety of fields and disciplines—philosophy, rhetoric, gender and queer studies, religion, literary and political theory—the editors hope to set a standard for the relevance of interdisciplinary philosophical discourse today. This volume offers a unique contribution to and for the humanities in the struggles of politics, economy, ecology, and the arts, by reaching beyond their closed circles toward understandings that may serve as the basis for the activation of humanity today. Considered together, Butler and Whitehead delineate a whole new cadre of approaches to long-standing problems as well as never-before asked questions in the humanities.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Samuel Johnson criticized Metaphysical poetry for its ‘violent juxtapositions.’ He was right in the characterization, wrong in the judgment. Is Butler a Whiteheadian? No. Is Whitehead proto-Butlerian? No. Is it ever appropriate to speak of them together? Hell yes! The present volume, a 21st-century Metaphysical poem, sets the parameters for this timely conversation and brilliantly starts the ball rolling!
About the Author
Roland Faber is Kilsby Family/John B. Cobb Jr. Professor of process studies at the Claremont School of Theology.
Michael Halewood is a senior lecturer at the University of Essex.
Jeremy D. Fackenthal is managing director for the Institute for Ecological Civilization and serves as adjunct faculty in the humanities for Vincennes University.
Randy Ramal is a visiting researcher at Arizona State University.
