Thinking with Whitehead on Transcendence and Its Failures: A Challenge to Stengers and Derrida
The ability to recognize failures presupposes the ability to recognize achievements. By the same logic, ethical failures are identifiable only to the extent to which ethical achievements are identifiable. This article examines the possibility of cultural criticism in Whitehead's metaphysics. Th...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Illinois Press
[2019]
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Process studies
Year: 2019, Volume: 48, Issue: 1, Pages: 5-18 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Whitehead, Alfred North 1861-1947
/ Metaphysics
/ Ethics
/ Stengers, Isabelle 1949-
/ Derrida, Jacques 1930-2004
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| IxTheo Classification: | NCA Ethics TK Recent history VA Philosophy |
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| Summary: | The ability to recognize failures presupposes the ability to recognize achievements. By the same logic, ethical failures are identifiable only to the extent to which ethical achievements are identifiable. This article examines the possibility of cultural criticism in Whitehead's metaphysics. The first part of this article challenges Isabelle Stenger's nonnormative reading of Whitehead, while the second part employs my alternative reading in order to critique two different (albeit nonexhaustive) accounts of the nature of (primarily ethical) ideals. The main focus of this critique is Derrida's account of the autoimmunity of democracy and the aporetic structure of justice. |
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| ISSN: | 2154-3682 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Process studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5840/process20194812 |