Process and Difference: Between Cosmological and Poststructuralist Postmodernisms (SUNY series in Constructive Postmodern Thought) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0791452875 ISBN 13: 9780791452875

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2002

Synopsis

Leading scholars explore the relationship between deconstructive theory and process thought.

The similarities and creative tensions between French-based poststructuralism and Whiteheadian process thought are examined here by leading scholars. Although both approaches are labeled "postmodern," their own proponents often take them to be so dissimilar as to be opposed. Contributors to this book, however, argue that processing these differences of theory at a deeper level may cultivate fertile and innovative modes of reflection. Through their comparisons, contrasts, and hybridizations of process and poststructuralist theories, the contributors variously redefine concepts of divinity and cosmos, advance the interaction between science and religion, and engage the sex/gender and religious ethics of otherness and subjectivity.

About this title

About the Author

At Drew University, Catherine Keller is Professor of Constructive Theology and Anne Daniell is a doctoral candidate. Catherine Keller is the author of Apocalypse Now and Then: A Feminist Guide to the End of the World andFrom a Broken Web: Separation, Sexism, and Self.

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791452875
• ISBN 13: 9780791452875
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Keller Catherine, Daniell Anne