Alfred North Whitehead: The Man and His Work: 1910-1947

by Victor Lowe

Overview

Originally published in 1990. The second volume of Victor Lowe's definitive work on Alfred North Whitehead completes the biography of one of the twentieth century's most influential yet least understood philosophers. In 1910 Whitehead abruptly ended his thirty-year association with Trinity College of Cambridge and moved to London. The intellectual and personal restlessness that precipitated this move ultimately led Whitehead—at the age of sixty-three—to settle in America and change the focus of his work from mathematics to philosophy. Volume 2 of Alfred North Whitehead: The Man and His Work follows Whitehead's journey to the United States and analyzes his expanding intellectual life. Although Whitehead wrote philosophy based on natural science while still in London, he began his most important work shortly after moving to Harvard in 1924. Science and the Modern World appeared in 1925, Religion in the Making in 1926, Symbolism in 1927, and Process and Reality in 1929. Discussing these and other important works, Lowe combines scholarly analysis with valuable insights gathered from Whitehead's friends and colleagues. Although Whitehead ordered that all his private papers be destroyed, Lowe was given access to letters the philosopher wrote to his son, North, and others. Never before published, the letters add a new personal dimension to Whitehead's life and thought. Photographs of the philosopher, his family, and associates provide an intimate look at a private and self-effacing man whose work has had a lasting impact on twentieth-century thought.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781421434216
Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date:	02/04/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	418
File size:	21 MB
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Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Victor Lowe was a professor of philosophy at Johns Hopkins University.

Victor Lowe was a professor of philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. He was an authority on British mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead.

Table of Contents

Preface
I. Whitehead's First Year in London
II. 1914-1918
III. Whitehead on Education
IV. Last years in England
V. First Philosophical Publications (principal author, Leemon B. McHenry)
VI. "Pan Physics": Whitehead's Philosophy of Natural Sciences, 1918-1922 (principal author, Leemon B. McHenry)
VII. Migration to Harvard
VIII. A New Philosophy of Nature
IX. Religion
X. The Atypical English Philosopher
XI. Gifford Lecturer
XII. Fame
XIII. Whitehead's Philosophy as I See It
Appendix A: The Second Edition of Principia Mathematica
Appendix B: Letters from Alfred North Whitehead, August 20, 1924-August 12, 1929
Appendix C: Letter to Charles Hartshorne
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

A very readable biography of one of the twentieth century's most powerful philosophers.
--Isis

From the Publisher

A very readable biography of one of the twentieth century's most powerful philosophers.

Isis