Process and Difference: Between Cosmological and Poststructuralist PostmodernismsCatherine Keller, Anne Daniell The similarities and creative tensions between French-based poststructuralism and Whiteheadian process thought are examined here by leading scholars. Although both approaches are labeled "postmodern," their own proponents often take them to be so dissimilar as to be opposed. Contributors to this book, however, argue that processing these differences of theory at a deeper level may cultivate fertile and innovative modes of reflection. Through their comparisons, contrasts, and hybridizations of process and poststructuralist theories, the contributors variously redefine concepts of divinity and cosmos, advance the interaction between science and religion, and engage the sex/gender and religious ethics of otherness and subjectivity. |
Contents
The Process of Difference the Difference of Process by CATHERINE KELLER | 1 |
Schelling Process Philosophy and Poststructuralism by ARRAN GARE | 31 |
The Whiteheadian Fold in the Discourse of Difference by CATHERINE KELLER | 55 |
3 Whitehead Deconstruction and Postmodernism by LUIS G PEDRAJA | 73 |
4 Whitehead and the Critique of Logocentrism by JOSEPH A BRACKEN SJ | 91 |
The Significance of Whiteheads Novelty and Butlers Subversion for the Repetitions of Lesbian Identity and the Expansion of the Future by CHRISTI... | 111 |
A Critical Comparison of Rosi Braidottis and John Cobbs Figurations by ANNE DANIELL | 147 |
Creative Interchange among Naturalism Postmodernism and Religious Valuing by CAROL WAYNE WHITE | 167 |
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