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One of the major philosophical texts of the 20th century, Process and Reality is based on Alfred North Whitehead’s influential lectures that he delivered at the University of Edinburgh in the 1920s on process philosophy.

Whitehead’s master work in philsophy, Process and Reality propounds a system of speculative philosophy, known as process philosophy, in which the various elements of reality into a consistent relation to each other. It is also an exploration of some of the preeminent thinkers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, such as Descartes, Newton, Locke, and Kant.

The ultimate edition of Whitehead’s magnum opus, Process and Reality is a standard reference for scholars of all backgrounds.
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An English mathematician and philosopher, Alfred North Whitehead provided the foundation for the shool of thought known as process philosophy. With an academic career that spanned from Cambridge to Harvard, Whitehead wrote extensively on mathematics, metaphysis, and philosophy. He died in Massachusetts in 1947.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Free Press; 2nd edition (July 1, 1979)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 413 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0029345707
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0029345702
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.1 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 1.25 x 9.25 inches
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Antonio Buscemi
5.0 out of 5 stars Fan of process philosophy
Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2023
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I was so sick of static identities in metaphysics that I had to pick this up. I haven't read the whole book yet, but as a huge fan of Deleuze, I really enjoyed reading this book by Whitehead.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Process & Reality
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Studied this in college and was totally blown away! Process & Reality is, in a nutshell, mathematics-based, process metaphysics, with quantum mechanics thrown in for good measure. Say that 3 times fast! Given that he wrote this in 1927-28, many of the concepts he proposed were way ahead of the times. The concepts he proposed were similar to Spinoza & Meister Eckhart, although more advanced than either one. I found it fascinating! I was a Philosophy major at the time & this was one of the first texts that really ignited my passion for philosophy & quantum mechanics. I would recommend this to Philosophers, Physicists, and anyone who is just naturally inquisitive about the way the world and its parts work.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful
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This is not an easy read, but one that has definitely changed the way I see the world forever.

There are not enough words to express my love for Whitehead, so I will simply leave it at this: beautiful.
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Tenderg Host
5.0 out of 5 stars A dose of reality that may be more than you can handle
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Possibly the most important work of philosophy since Socrates and maybe the greatest work of philosophy ever badly written, but then again Socrates was so busy thinking, he didn't write at all, letting Plato do all his writing for him. WTF Plato! You have such an annoying way of oversimplifying or as you put it "idealizing" everything.
So, in keeping it real I'll say, If you give a sh*t about actual reality, and I mean that literally for emphasis, let's face it, most people only like reality if it involves getting into hair pulling arguments, throwing drinks, misunderstands on purpose, and doing hilariously horrible things to other "contestants" to get camera time, because nothing is real unless it is on TV.

Well, Whitehead's P&R has more drama, more confrontation, and if you can decode his words into the meaningless drivel we call natural language you will get a dose of reality that may be more than you can handle.
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This book was purchased for a friend of mine who is incarcerated. He said it was what he expected.
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SSG Cedar
5.0 out of 5 stars Process and Reality
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This is the last book I thought would ever be turned into an ebook. When I studied it in theology class in seminary it was said that only 4 people had ever understood the book, and 3 of them are dead. It is probably one of the most difficult books in the English language in modern philosophy, On the other hand, Process and Reality is the ultimate work by probably the last philosopher to attempt to explain everything.

Whitehead was a mathematician, philosopher of science, and a metaphysician. That is metaphysics, not as in mumbo jumbo nonsense, but as in the original sense of an explanation of ultimate reality. The ultimate reality for Whitehead and process philosophers and theologians is not things or ideas but creative process.
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Jason M. Squires
5.0 out of 5 stars Groundbreaking cosmological book
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Whitehead is a difficult read, but his view of the universe is a ground breaking shift from how Western society has evolved its view. Whitehead moves metaphysically from substance to event, from static to dynamic, and seeks to integrate different fields into constructive dialogue with one another. A potentially revolutionary book which should find more use in Western culture than it has to this point.
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Marcus van der Erve
5.0 out of 5 stars A most underrated and undervalued new insight into reality... Prelude to The Next Scientific Revolution
Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2013
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The views of Alfred North Whitehead about the true nature of reality are most underrated and undervalued. Rather than complex, Whitehead's views were simply unfamiliar to early reviewers of this book. Whitehead, a contemporary of Einstein, unveiled about 78% of The Next Scientific Revolution (explained in a book with the same title, which you'll also find on Amazon). The Next Scientific Revolution is about the explanation of reality as a non-material, wholly behavioral phenomenon.
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Top notch, a gold mine of metaphysical ideas and systems.
5.0 out of 5 stars Process and Reality : Modern Philosophy
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1.0 out of 5 stars Prodotto non integro
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Angus Jenkinson
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the most important works of the 20th century
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Whitehead is not of course light reading, but within his scientific/philosophical genre, he is a master stylist, clear, compelling and illuminating. Whitehead is most famous for his collaboration with Bertrand Russell, but this is actually the more important work. His thesis turns on its head the 19th-century view of matter, science and the cosmos. Nevertheless, science and philosophy has been relatively slow to realize the enormous significance of his work, recognition which is now coming his way. What Whitehead does is transform things into activities and events. Instead of seeing atoms, molecules and the physical world composed of them as things, relatively hard nuggets seen independently of time, they become processes taking place in time, and therefore activities and events in continual actualization. Such thinking is important to or accords with Deleuze and post structure and thinking, Heidegger, Gadamer and phenomenology, morphogenetic fields and a more dynamic understanding of the organic world, and is equally important to the practising manager today. It means that we begin to think in terms of activities and processes, a much more fluid dynamic view of everything. We begin to see ourselves as activating events, organisational culture as a dynamic field, and the universe as altogether more remarkable.
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5.0 out of 5 stars 私の人生の秘宝ここにあり。
Reviewed in Japan on March 21, 2015
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世界最高峰の哲学書。電子辞書を何度でも引きまくって読み返したい。私の宝物です。
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