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Language and Process: Words, Whitehead and the World [Kõva köide]

(University of Essex)
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Michael Halewood uses ideas from analytic philosophy and continental philosophy as well as social theory to look at how language relates to the world, and the world to language. He addresses important questions such as whether words are able to capture the world (nouns); whether the properties of things, such as colours, are real (adjectives); and how we can think about the world as process (verbs). Primarily using the work of the innovative British philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, but also incorporating the ideas of Gilles Deleuze, John Dewey and Luce Irigaray, he argues that viewing both the world and language as 'in process' can help reframe and move beyond some enduring problems and shed new light for future research. --

Michael Halewood uses ideas from analytic philosophy and continental philosophy as well as social theory to look at how language relates to the world, and the world to language. He addresses important questions such as whether words are able to capture the world (nouns); whether the properties of things, such as colours, are real (adjectives); and how we can think about the world as process (verbs).


Michael Halewood uses ideas from analytic philosophy and continental philosophy as well as social theory to look at how language relates to the world, and the world to language. He addresses important questions such as whether words are able to capture the world (nouns); whether the properties of things, such as colours, are real (adjectives); and how we can think about the world as process (verbs). Primarily using the work of Alfred North Whitehead, but also incorporating the ideas of Gilles Deleuze, John Dewey and Luce Irigaray, he argues that viewing both the world and language as ‘in process’ can help reframe and move beyond some enduring problems and shed new light for future research.

Michael Halewood uses ideas from analytic philosophy, continental philosophy and social theory to look at how language relates to the world, and the world to language. He primarily draws on the work of Alfred North Whitehead, and incorporating the ideas of Gilles Deleuze, John Dewey and Luce Irigaray, to view the world as 'in process'.
Acknowledgements vi
Preface viii
1 Introduction: The Problem of Words and Things
1(14)
2 Nouns, Names and Signs: From Frege to Saussure
15(19)
3 Adjectives: The Properties of the World and the `Bifurcation of Nature'
34(17)
4 Verbs: Deleuze on Infinitives, Events and Process
51(20)
5 Adverbs: Dewey on the Qualities of Existence
71(18)
6 Prepositions: Whitehead on the `Withness' of the Body
89(21)
7 Gender and Personal Pronouns: She, He, It and They
110(25)
8 Tone, Force and Rhetoric: Capitalism, Theology and Grammar
135(19)
9 Conclusion
154(4)
Bibliography 158(5)
Index 163