Nature as event : the lure of the possible / Didier Debaise ; translated by Michael Halewood.

Main entry:

Debaise, Didier, author.

Title & Author:

Nature as event : the lure of the possible / Didier Debaise ; translated by Michael Halewood.

Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.
©2017

Description:

104 pages ; 22 cm.

Series:

Thought in the act

Notes:
Translated from the French.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The cosmology of the moderns -- A universal mannerism -- The intensification of experience.

Summary:

Didier Debaise brings Alfred North Whitehead's philosophies of nature to bear on the Anthropocene, creating a new theory of nature that does not recognize a divide between the human and nonhuman, a theory in which all organisms have the power to unleash potential into the world.

ISBN:

9780822369332 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
0822369338 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9780822369486 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0822369486 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780822372424

Subject:

Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947.
Whitehead, Alfred North 1861-1947
Philosophy of nature.
Philosophie de la nature.
Naturphilosophie

Added entries:

Thought in the act.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 299739
Call No.: BIB 245888
Status: Available

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