Michael Halewood is Professor in Sociology at the University of Essex. He is the author of Language and Process: Words, Whitehead and the World (EUP, 2020), Rethinking the Social through Durkheim, Marx, Weber and Whitehead (Anthem Press, 2014) and A. N. Whitehead and Social Theory: Tracing a Culture of Thought (Anthem Press, 2011). He is co-editor of Butler on Whitehead (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012). He is the translator of The Lure of Possibilities by Didier Debaise (Duke University Press, 2017).

We use language all the time without worries; but when we try to actively think about how words relate to the world, we are immediately perplexed. In this book, Michael Halewood deftly winds a way through these difficulties, showing us how language is part of the world, rather than something that comments upon it from outside.

• PrefaceIntroduction: The Problem of Words and ThingsNouns, Names and Signs: From Frege to SaussureAdjectives: The Properties of the World and the 'Bifurcation of Nature'Verbs: Deleuze on Infinitives, Events and ProcessAdverbs: Dewey on the Qualities of ExistencePrepositions: Whitehead on the Withness of the BodyGender and Personal Pronouns: She, He, It and TheyTone, Force and Rhetoric: Capitalism, Theology and GrammarConclusionBibliography