Process Sub-politics
Placing Empirical Flesh on Whiteheadian Thought
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12596227 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Carolan (0000-0002-2691-0454, Colorado State University, corresponding author), Michael S Carolan (Colorado State University) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 187-203 |
| Publication date | 2009-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethics Place & Environment (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1366-879X • E-ISSN: 1469-6703 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13668790902863408 |
| OpenAlex | W2010170257 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 25 |
This paper is more explorative than programmatic. It attempts to place empirical flesh on some of Alfred North Whitehead's speculative thoughts on concrete apprehensions. The challenge lies in the fact that Whitehead was vague on the subject. While Whitehead offers numerous thoughts on why we mistake the abstract for the concrete he wrote considerably less on how we can get ourselves to think more concretely. I therefore examine an empirical case and work ‘backwards’, showing its affinities with process thought. A largely invisible phenomenon within the social/political theory literature is the empirical subject of this paper: the agricultural field day (though the events examined are not of the conventional variety). The paper begins with an overview of Whitehead's critique of abstraction and the fallacy of misplaced concreteness. Attention then turns directly to the case study to empirically ground Whitehead's thoughts on doing more concrete abstractions
Abstraction · Concreteness · Empirical research · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Flesh · Mistake · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Subject (documents · Variety (cybernetics · Computer Science · Earth Systems and Cosmic Evolution · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Violence, Religion, and Philosophy · Whitehead's Philosophy and Applications
The Concept of Nature
Knowledge and power
Reason and Feeling in Thinking about Justice
What Time Is It
Not Easy Being Green
An Ecological Politics of Everyday Life
Of Bodies, Place, and Culture
How to Derive "Ought" From "Is
Slowing things down
The Embodied Mind
The Perception of the Environment
Democratizing Knowledge
Perception, Living Matter, Cognitive Systems, Immune Networks
On Whitehead and Deleuze
Wild Flowers in the Wrong Field are Weeds! Examining Farmers' Constructions of Conservation
Whitehead's Account of the Sixth Day
Between Facts and Norms
Ontological Relativity and Other Essays
Primate Visions
The Perception of the Environment
Barriers to the Adoption of Sustainable Agriculture on Rented Land
Where the Grass Grows Again
Did Philosophers Have to Become Fixated on Truth
Ethical Know-how and Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Small Scale Fisheries on the Eastern Black Sea Coast of Turkey
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2012 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |