Stengers has succeeded in bringing Whitehead back to life. Whitehead's speculative cosmology succeeds, if it does, by avoiding bifurcations between disassociated categories. Instead of placing "subjective illusion" and "objective reality" in irremediable conflict with one another; instead of separating "man" and "nature," "mind" and "matter," or "God" and "the World" in order to explain one [...]
"The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato." —Alfred North Whitehead
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