The Essays and Articles of Alfred North Whitehead, 1917-1942

Author: Brian G. Henning and Joseph Petek Series: Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Complete Works of Alfred N

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A chronological and critically edited collection of all of Whitehead's essays and articles, including previously unknown essays.

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A chronological and critically edited collection of all of Whitehead's essays and articles, including previously unknown essays.

Description

Volume 2 of the Critical Edition's 'Essays and Articles' (EA2) captures published and unpublished essays written by Whitehead from his early London period just after joining the Aristotelian Society in 1915 through to his retirement from Harvard in 1937 until his death in 1947.
This volume includes previously unknown essays as well as papers published in academic journals and monographs. The better-known essays in this period those that were re-published in collections such as The Aims of Education (1929) and Essays in Science and Philosophy (1947) suffer from having too many variants, each with their own pagination and variations, making scholarly reference unnecessarily complicated. EA2, for the first time, presents all of Whitehead's non-monograph works in a single authoritative, chronologically ordered, critically edited, and corrected format, making these volumes the single scholarly standard for researching and referencing these essays.

About the Author

Brian G. Henning is Professor of Philosophy and of Environmental Studies and Sciences at Gonzaga University and Executive Director of the Whitehead Research Project. Dr. Henning holds a M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in philosophy from Fordham University. He is author or editor of fifteen books and more than thirty-five articles and chapters. His 2005 book, The Ethics of Creativity (University of Pittsburgh Press), won the 2007 Findlay Book Prize from the Metaphysical Society of America for the best work of metaphysics published between 2001 and 2006. He is the Founder and General Editor of The Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Complete Works of Alfred North Whitehead. Joseph Petek is the Director of Research and Publication of the Whitehead Research Project of Gonzaga University and Executive Editor of The Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Complete Works of Alfred North Whitehead. He has co-edited three books on Whitehead: Rethinking Whitehead's Symbolism (2017), Whitehead at Harvard, 1924-1925 (2020), and The Harvard Lectures of Alfred North Whitehead, 1925-1927: General Metaphysical Problems of Science (2021). His latest book is Unearthing the Unknown Whitehead (2022), which examines the significance of Whitehead's Harvard lectures and other previously unknown archival materials.