Whitehead and Continental Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century

Jeremy D. Fackenthal is managing director for the Institute for Ecological Civilization and serves as adjunct faculty in the humanities for Vincennes University.

The philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1949) was marginalized for much of the later twentieth century, but it has achieved a new prominence in the twenty-first. The essays in this volume consider how Whitehead's thought resonates, in a variety of ways, with the concerns of recent continental philosophy. The authors here draw on Whitehead to consider matters all the way from the urgent need for humanitarian action to refined speculations on the nature of time.

• Introduction: Jeremy FackenthalPart 1: Technological and Systematic DislocationsChapter 1. Creativity and Adversity: William HammrickChapter 2. Interrogating the Quantified Self: The Technological Reinterpretation of Causal Efficacy: Bo EberleChapter 3. Nerfed: Complex Systems and Whiteheadian Social Activism: J. R. Hustwit and Carl DykePart 2: Human/Nonhuman DislocationsChapter 4. Process Philosophy and Neo-Materialism: Nomadic Subjectivity and Evanescing toward Sustainability: Jeremy FackenthalChapter 5. Syrian Life on the Edge: Engaging an Ontology of Immanence: Deena M. LinChapter 6. Conceptual Prehensions and Worlds of Experience: Whitehead and Uexküll on the Nonhuman Subject: Tano PosteraroPart 3: Time, the World, and AbstractionChapter 7. Philosophy against Abstraction: Whitehead and Deleuze: Kris KlotzChapter 8. Power in Relation: Foucault, Whitehead, Deleuze: Elijah Prewitt-DavisChapter 9. Taking Aim at the Present: Whitehead, Continental Philosophy and the Bifurcation of Nature: Keith Robinson