| Management number | 238670884 | Release Date | 2026/07/11 | List Price | $3.60 | Model Number | 238670884 | ||
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<p><b>What if reality is not made of things at all?</b></p><p>What if the universe is not a machine built from dead matter, but a living process of becoming?</p><p>What if time, consciousness, relation, and creativity are not secondary features of reality-but its deepest structure?</p><p>In <b>Whitehead and the Process of Reality</b>, Clayton Louis Turnage explores the life, thought, and enduring significance of <b>Alfred North Whitehead</b>, the mathematician, logician, and philosopher who helped overturn the ancient metaphysics of substance and replace it with one of the most radical visions in modern thought: </p><p><b>Reality is not fundamentally made of static things. It is made of process.</b></p><p>Whitehead began as one of the great formal minds of the modern age, collaborating with Bertrand Russell on <b>Principia Mathematica</b>. But his deepest questions pushed beyond mathematics and logic into a bold new metaphysical vision-one in which the world is composed not of independent objects, but of <b>actual occasions</b>, <b>relation</b>, <b>creativity</b>, <b>experience</b>, and the continual advance of novelty.</p><p>This book takes readers deep into Whitehead's extraordinary transformation from mathematician to metaphysician and shows why his ideas matter now more than ever in an age wrestling with fragmentation, consciousness, emergence, ecology, and the limits of matter-first thinking.</p><p>Inside this book, you will discover: </p><ul><li>Whitehead's early life, Cambridge formation, and mathematical discipline</li><li>his collaboration with <b>Bertrand Russell</b> on <i>Principia Mathematica</i></li><li>why logic and formalism could not answer his deepest questions</li><li>his revolt against <b>substance metaphysics</b></li><li>why reality, for Whitehead, is made of <b>process</b> rather than static things</li><li>the meaning of <b>actual occasions</b> as the real units of becoming</li><li><b>prehension</b> and the relational fabric of existence</li><li><b>creativity</b> as the ultimate principle of novelty</li><li>why the universe is an <b>unfinished event</b> rather than a finished object</li><li>Whitehead's radical expansion of <b>experience beyond the human</b></li><li>his rethinking of <b>God</b> as the lure of possibility rather than an external ruler</li><li>why Whitehead became foundational for <b>process philosophy</b> and <b>process theology</b></li><li>how his thought resonates with <b>Conscious Computational Cosmology (CCC)</b> and consciousness-first metaphysics</li></ul><p>This is not just a book about a philosopher.</p><p>It is a book about one of the boldest questions ever asked: </p><p></p>
| Book format | Paperback |
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| Fiction/nonfiction | Non-Fiction |
| Genre | Political & Social Sciences |
| Publication date | May, 2026 |
| Pages | 92 |
| Subgenre | Mind & Body |
| Series title | The Architects of the Unknown: Scientists' Hidden Mystical Beliefs Revealed |
| Number in series | 9 |
| Edition | 1 |
| Publisher | Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp |
| Language | English |
| Is collectible | N |
| Recording time | 0 min |
| Retail packaging | Single Piece |
| Assembled product dimensions (l x w x h) | 6.00 x 0.19 x 9.00 in |
| Assembled product weight | 0.3 lb |
| Bisac subject heading | Philosophy |
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