Contents

pp iii-iv

Abbreviations

pp v-vi

Introduction

pp 1-10

Part I - Perception and Paradox

pp 11-12

1 - Whitehead on Causality and Perception

pp 13-28

2 - Originary Symbolism: Whitehead, Deleuze and the Process View on Perception

pp 29-55

3 - Uniting Earth to the Blue of Heaven Above: Strange Attractors in Whitehead's Symbolism

pp 56-78

Part II - Adventures in Culture and Value

pp 79-80

4 - The Inhumanity of Symbolism

pp 81-95

5 - Reverence, Revision and Creaturely Life: Whitehead's Political Theology of Enjoyment

pp 96-107

6 - Ren and Causal Efficacy: Confucians and Whitehead on the Social Role of Symbolism

pp 108-123

7 - Avoiding a Fatal Error: Extending Whitehead's Symbolism Beyond Language

pp 124-144

Part III - Misplaced Concreteness in Ethics and Science

pp 145-146

8 - A Dog's Life: Thought, Symbols and Concepts

pp 147-169

9 - From Manipulation to Co-creation: Whitehead on the Ethics of Symbol-Making

pp 170-185

10 - On Symbols, Propositions and Idiocies: Towards a Slow Technoscience

pp 186-207

11 - Of Symbolism: Climate Concreteness, Causal Efficacy and the Whiteheadian Cosmopolis

pp 208-226

Notes on Contributors

pp 227-230

Index

pp 231-234