Bad with Names: Replacing Animal with Whitehead’s Insistent Particularity of Bodies
In the history of Western thought the "animal" is a general idea devoid of the details of particularity. Whitehead poses a nuanced challenge to us: how to perceive each abstract "animal" as a concrete body. To becom "bad with names" is an invitation to exchange reductio...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Illinois Press
2013
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Process studies
Year: 2013, Volume: 42, Issue: 2, Pages: 181-199 |
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| Summary: | In the history of Western thought the "animal" is a general idea devoid of the details of particularity. Whitehead poses a nuanced challenge to us: how to perceive each abstract "animal" as a concrete body. To becom "bad with names" is an invitation to exchange reductionist designations with new language for individual creatures that populate the amorphous category of "animal." Derrida, Deleuze, and Guattari, along with Whitehead, suggest ways in which we might understand the idea that there are no "animals," only radically particular bodies. |
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| ISSN: | 2154-3682 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Process studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/44798742 |