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978-0-7391-7276-6 • Hardback • March 2012 • $147.00 • (£113.00)
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Roland Faber is the Kilsby Family/John B. Cobb, Jr. Professor of Process Studies, as well as the executive co-director of the Center for Process Studies and executive director of the Whitehead Research Project, which was founded in 2007.
Michael Halewood is senior lecturer in sociology at the University of Essex.
Deena M. Lin is a Ph.D candidate in philosophy of religion and theology at the Claremont Graduate University.
ForewordDeena M. Lin
AcknowledgmentsIntroductionMichael HalewoodPart I: Butler on WhiteheadChapter 1: On this Occasion . . .Judith Butler
Chapter 2: After Performativity: On Concern and CritiqueVikki Bell
Chapter 3: Provocative Reflections: Judith Butler on Subjectivity, Objectivity, and Moral ObligationsRandy Ramal
Part II: Butler and WhiteheadChapter 4: Undoing and Unknowing: The Widening Relations of Judith Butler and Alfred North WhiteheadCatherine Keller
Chapter 5: Adventure and Risk: Exploring Creative Possibility for True Ethical ResponsibilityJeremy D. Fackenthal
Chapter 6: Coming Out with Butler and Whitehead: Opacity, Apophasis, and the Phallacy of Misplaced ClosetnessSigridur Guðmarsdóttir
Chapter 7: The Feeling of What Matters: Vectors of Power in Butler and WhiteheadAlan Van Wyk
Chapter 8: Khora and Violence: Revisiting Butler with WhiteheadRoland Faber
Chapter 9: Modes of Violence: Whitehead, Deleuze, and the Displacement of NeoliberalismJeffrey A. Bell
Chapter 10: Language, the Body, and the Problem of SignificationMichael Halewood
Chapter 11: The Objects Have Been Equal to the OccasionAstrid Lorange
Part III: On Butler On MourningChapter 12: Prehending Precarity: Presenting a Social Ontology that Feels Beyond the FrameDeena M. Lin
Chapter 13: Which Lives Are Grievable?Daniel A. Dombrowski
Chapter 14: Loss of ‘Self,’ Grievability of Life, and Reharmonizing Political PotentialKirsten M. Gerdes
Chapter 15: “A Tender Care That Nothing Be Lost”—Universal Salvation and Eternal Loss in Butler and Whitehead?Roland Faber
Chapter 16:Occasioned by “On this Occasion”: More Thoughts on Butler and WhiteheadCatherine Keller
Chapter 17: The Inappropriate Tenderness of the Divine: Mono No Aware and the Recovery of Loss in Whitehead’s AxiologyMatthew S. LoPresti
Samuel Johnson criticized Metaphysical poetry for its 'violent juxtapositions.' He was right in the characterization, wrong in the judgment. Is Butler a Whiteheadian? No. Is Whitehead proto-Butlerian? No. Is it ever appropriate to speak of them together? Hell yes! The present volume, a 21st-century Metaphysical poem, sets the parameters for this timely conversation and brilliantly starts the ball rolling!
— Steven Meyer, Washington University in St. Louis