Isabelle Stengers, Michael Chase, Bruno Latour-Thinking with Whitehead_ A Free and Wild Creation of Concepts-Harvard University Press (2011).pdf

THINKINGWITH WHITEHEAD
A FreeandWild Creation ofConcepts
ISABELLESTENGERS
TranslatedbyMichael Chase
FOREWORD BY BRUNOLATOUR
HarvardUniversity Press
Cambridge,Massachuset ts,and Lon don,England 2011
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p. cm.
Includesbiblio graphicalreferences andindex.
ISBN978- 0-674-04803-4(alk. paper)
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Toall thestudents who,inthe ofcoursethe last
fewyears, havetaken myclasses onWhitehead.
Itisthanks tothem that I have e convinced
that,forbetter orworse, this book could be,and
thereforeshouldbe,written.
Contents
Foreword:What Is Given in Experience?
byBruno Latour ix
AbbreviationsandReferences xvii
Introduction:Whitehead Today? 1
PART ONE
FROM THEPHILOSOPHY OF NATURETO METAPHYSICS
1 TheMathematician andthe Sunset 31
2 Eventsand Passage 42
3 TheFoothold ofthe Mind 58
4 ThereItIs Again 73
5 AttentiontoObjects 85
6 TheIngression ofScientific Objects 94
7 Interlude:A Pragmatics ofConcepts 105
8 Scienceandthe Modern World: A Strange Book 114
9 A New Epoch?123
10 Fromthe Concept ofNature tothe Order of Nature 142
11 ScientificObjectsand the Test of anism 165
12 TheEvent from Its Own Standpoint?185
VIIICO NTE NTS
13 Entryinto Metaphysics 201