Secrets of Becoming: Negotiating Whitehead, Deleuze, and Butler

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Roland Faber, Andrea M. Stephenson
Fordham Univ Press, 2011 - Biography & Autobiography - 277 pages

Secrets of Becoming brings into conversation modes of thought traditionally held apart: Whitehead's philosophy of the event, Deleuze's philosophy of multiplicity, and Judith Butler's philosophy of gender difference. Why should one try to connect these strains of thinking? What might make the work of these thinkers negotiable with one another?

This volume finds that bridge in an emphasis on "becoming" that secretly defines the philosophies of Whitehead, Deleuze, and Butler. Its three sections investigate their surprising confluence in a "philosophy of becoming" in relation to the question of the event, bodies and societies, and immanence and divinity. A substantial Introduction gives an extended comparison of the three thinkers.

 

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Contents

Whitehead PostStructuralism and Realism
53
Deleuze Whitehead
70
Transcendental Empiricism in Deleuze and Whitehead
82
Can We Be Wolves? Intersections between Deleuzes
92
Butler and Whitehead on the Social Body
107
Conflict
127
Staying in the Middle
142
For a More Deleuzian
157
Becoming an Order without
178
Whiteheads Receptacle
191
Uninteresting Truth? Tedium and Event in Postmodernity
201
Notes
215
Bibliography
265
List of Contributors
275
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About the author (2011)

Roland Faber is Kilsby Family / John B. Cobb Jr. Professor of Process Studies at Claremont Lincoln University and Claremont School of Theology, Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Claremont Graduate University, Executive Co-Director of the Center for Process Studies, and Executive Director of the Whitehead Research Project. He is the author of God as Poet of the World: Exploring Process Theology. Andrea M. Stephenson is a doctoral student in philosophy of religion and theology at Claremont Graduate University.

Bibliographic information

TitleSecrets of Becoming: Negotiating Whitehead, Deleuze, and Butler
EditorsRoland Faber, Andrea M. Stephenson
PublisherFordham Univ Press, 2011
ISBN0823232085, 9780823232086
Length277 pages
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Biography & Autobiography / Philosophers
Philosophy / General
Philosophy / History & Surveys / Modern
Philosophy / Individual Philosophers
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