12. The Postmodern Dimension of Whitehead’s Philosophy and Its Relevance

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Content: v
3. PREFACE 7
4. Part I. Engagements: Can Process Thought And Chinese Thought Be Fused?
5. 1. IS WHITEHEAD RELEVANT IN CHINA TODAY? 15
6. 2. Whitehead, China, Postmodern Politics, and Global Democracy in the New Millennium 25
7. 3. The Tao of Postmodernity: Process, Deconstruction, and Postcolonial Theory 39
8. 4. Process Thought in Chinese Traditional Arts 51
9. 5. Process Thought and Confucian Values 69
10. 6. Education’s Myths and Metaphors: Implications of Process Education for Educational Reform 77
11. 7. The Problem of Transcendence in Chinese Religions: From a Whiteheadian Perspective 101
12. 8. Whitehead and Tiantai: Eternal Objects and the “Twofold Three Thousand” 113
13. 9. Concepts of Creation and Pragmatic of Creativity 137
14. Part II. Perspectives: Process Thought in Chinese Minds
15. 10. Non-sensuous Perception and its Philosophical Analysis 153
16. 11. Can Whiteheadian Process Philosophy Challenge Western Philosophy? 163
17. 12. The Postmodern Dimension of Whitehead’s Philosophy and Its Relevance 173
18. 13. The Value of Adventure in Whiteheadian Thought 189
19. 14. Defining Environmental and Resource Protection in Process Philosophy 197
20. 15. Towards a Whiteheadian Ecofeminism 205
21. Whitehead’s Publications 215
22. Contributors’ Profiles 216
23. Backmatter 218