![]() ![]() According to Kosaka, Nishida’s Zen-tinged concept of pure experience as a spontaneously developing system of consciousness unfolds in three dialectical stages: (i) the pre-rational stage of original pure experience as an implicit unity (ii) the rational stage of pure experience that emerges by development of mental distinctions and (iii) the trans-rational stage of pure experience as a unified enveloping whole underlying cognitive judgments grasped by a unifying act of intellectual intuition. Using the contemporary Japanese scholarship of Kosaka Kunitsugu, I then argue that for Nishida, pure experience is a self-developing system of consciousness that unfolds by a Hegelian dialectical process consisting of three moments. Or in Whitehead’s own vocabulary, mental growth develops by the three stages of (i) romanticism, (ii) precision, and (iii) generalization. Whitehead agrees with Hegel that consciousness unfolds by the three dialectical stages of (i) thesis, (ii) antithesis, and (iii) synthesis. Whitehead’s idea of mental cultivation through a “rhythm of education” in three phases is applied to interpret Nishida’s concept of pure experience as a threefold developing system of consciousness. The Order of Nature and the Creation of Societiesġ5.This essay uses the philosophy of education developed by Alfred North Whitehead as a framework by which to illuminate the idea of “pure experience” articulated by Nishida Kitarō (1870–1945), founder of the Kyoto school of modern Japanese philosophy. Of “Experiential Togetherness”: Toward a More Robust Empiricismġ4. Possessive Subjects: A Speculative Interpretation of Nonhumansġ3. Cutting away from Smooth Space: Alfred North Whitehead’s Extensive Continuum in Parametric Softwareġ1. The Event and the Occasion: Deleuze, Whitehead, and Creativityġ0. Multiplicity and Mysticism: Toward a New Mystagogy of Becomingħ. Whitehead’s Involution of an Outside ChanceĦ. The Technics of Prehension: On the Photography of Nicholas Baierĥ. What Is the Style of Matters of Concern?Ĥ. A Constructivist Reading of Process and Realityģ. Bell, Southeastern Louisiana U Nathan Brown, U of California, Davis Peter Canning Didier Debaise, Free U of Brussels Roland Faber, Claremont Lincoln U Michael Halewood, U of Essex Graham Harman, American U in Cairo Bruno Latour, Sciences Po Paris Erin Manning, Concordia U, Montreal Steven Meyer, Washington U Luciana Parisi, U of London Keith Robinson, U of Arkansas at Little Rock Isabelle Stengers, Free U of Brussels James Williams, U of Dundee. The Lure of Whitehead offers readers not only a comprehensive introduction to Whitehead’s philosophy but also a demonstration of how his work advances our emerging understanding of life in the posthuman epoch.Ĭontributors: Jeffrey A. Philosophers and artists, literary critics and social theorists, anthropologists and computer scientists have all embraced Whitehead’s thought, extending it through inquiries into the nature of life, the problem of consciousness, and the ontology of objects, as well as into experiments in education and digital media. Once largely ignored, the speculative philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead has assumed a new prominence in contemporary theory across the humanities and social sciences. ![]()
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