![]() ![]() ![]() He was born in Ramsgate, England on February 15, 1861, his father being Canon Alfred Whitehead, Vicar of St. 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. Alfred North Whitehead came to Harvard as Professor of Philosophy in the autumn of 1924, upon his retirement from the University of London. Never before published, the letters add a new personal dimension to Whitehead's life and thought. 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. He also insisted that God as an actual entity is not an exception to the metaphysical categories. Discussing these and other important works, Lowe combines scholarly analysis with valuable insights gathered from Whitehead's friends and colleagues. In Process and Reality Alfred North Whitehead dealt extensively with God as an indispensable part of his metaphysical system, as that without which there would be no order or novelty and, hence, no world. Science and the Modern World appeared in 1925, Religion in the Making in 1926, Symbolism in 1927, and Process and Reality in 1929. 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. Volume 2 of Alf red North Whitehead: The Man and His Work follows Whitehead's journey to the United States and analyzes his expanding intellectual life. 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. In 1910 Whitehead abruptly ended his thirty-year association with Trinity College of Cambridge and moved to London. 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. ![]()
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