Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents iii
3. Abbreviations v
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I Perception and Paradox
6. 1 Whitehead on Causality and Perception 11
7. 2 Originary Symbolism: Whitehead, Deleuze and the Process View on Perception 29
8. 3 Uniting Earth to the Blue of Heaven Above: Strange Attractors in Whitehead’s Symbolism 56
9. Part II Adventures in Culture and Value
10. 4 The Inhumanity of Symbolism 79
11. 5 Reverence, Revision and Creaturely Life: Whitehead’s Political Theology of Enjoyment 96
12. 6 Ren and Causal Efficacy: Confucians and Whitehead on the Social Role of Symbolism 108
13. 7 Avoiding a Fatal Error: Extending Whitehead’s Symbolism Beyond Language 124
14. Part III Misplaced Concreteness in Ethics and Science
15. 8 A Dog’s Life: Thought, Symbols and Concepts 145
16. 9 From Manipulation to Co-creation: Whitehead on the Ethics of Symbol-Making 170
17. 10 On Symbols, Propositions and Idiocies: Towards a Slow Technoscience 186
18. 11 Of Symbolism: Climate Concreteness, Causal Efficacy and the Whiteheadian Cosmopolis 208
19. Notes on Contributors 227
20. Index 231