E-raamat: Virginia Woolf as a Process-Oriented Thinker: Parallels between Woolf's Fiction and Process Philosophy

A book waiting to be writtenand Veronika Krajķckovį does so in mindful, thorough, and always informative ways. -- Melanie Sehgal, University of Wuppertal Veronika Krajķckovįs new book demonstrates that scholars studying Virginia Woolfs handling of materiality, ecology, ontology, ethics, and aesthetics (not to mention their entanglements!) ought to be in dialogue with the process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead. While theorists like Gilles Deleuze, Donna Haraway, Jane Bennett, and Rosi Braidotti supply the conceptual architecture for much of this kind of work in Woolf studies, Krajķckovį shows the relevance of a philosopher who was Woolfs contemporarya thinker whose writing not only resonates with Woolfs fiction and non-fiction but whose insistence on processual and relational models anticipates thing theory, OOO, speculative realism, and new materialism. There is much work left to do on Whiteheads place in modernist thought and culture. -- Benjamin D. Hagen, University of South Dakota Working from that sweet spot where philosophy and literature intersect, Veronika Krajķckovį writes about parallels between the fiction of Virginia Woolf and the speculative philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead. Though Woolf and Whitehead did not know one another well, they had an affinity through their similar reactions to the crises of early-twentieth-century modernity. They both sought to develop a richer account of the world's entanglements and interconnections than was available in the official culture of their day. Krajķckovį beautifully brings out the parallels between Woolf and Whitehead, and their shared search for the re-enchantment of our lives in the cosmos. -- Steven Shaviro, emeritus professor of English, Wayne State University