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PROCESS AND REALITY: AN ESSAY IN COSMOLOGY
by WHITEHEAD, ALFRED NORTH
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- Hardcover
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- FINE IN NEAR FINE DUST JACKET
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NEW YORK NY: MACMILLAN CO (THE). FINE IN NEAR FINE DUST JACKET. PUB 1929. FIRST EDITION. HARDCOVER. GIFFORD LECTURES DELIVERED IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH DURING THE SESSION 1927-1928. PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL NAVY CLOTH COVERED BOARDS WITH GILT SPINE TITLES. THE BOOK IS FINE WITH JUST A TOUCH OF THE NORMAL TONING OF THE TEXT. THE GREEN PRINTED EXTERNAL PANELS OF THE D.J. ARE EVENLY TONED WITH A COUPLE TINY EDGE TEARS AT THE ENDS OF THE SPINE PANEL. A REMARKABLY WELL PRESERVED COPY BOTH OF THE BOOK AND THE RARELY ENCOUNTERED D.J.. THE FRONT FLAP'S LOWER CORNER IS CLIPPED AND THERE IS A 4.50 PRICE AT THE TOP OF THAT FLAP. .
Synopsis
In philosophy, especially metaphysics, the book Process and Reality by Alfred North Whitehead sets out its author's philosophy of organism, also called process philosophy. The book, published in 1929, is a revision of the Gifford Lectures he gave in 1927-28. Process philosophy lays the groundwork for a paradigm of subjectivity, which Whitehead calls a "completed metaphysical language. " (p.
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- JOHN LUTSCHAK BOOKS
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- COLLECTI013576I
- Title
- PROCESS AND REALITY: AN ESSAY IN COSMOLOGY
- Author
- WHITEHEAD, ALFRED NORTH
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - FINE IN NEAR FINE DUST JACKET
- Edition
- FIRST EDITION
- Publisher
- MACMILLAN CO (THE)
- Place of Publication
- NEW YORK NY
- Date Published
- PUB 1929
- Keywords
- PHILOSOPHY, COSMOLOGY, GIFFORD LECTURES
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