Lexington Books
Pages: 200
Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-66694-229-3 • Hardback • October 2023 • $95.00 • (£73.00)
978-1-66694-230-9 • eBook • October 2023 • $45.00 • (£35.00) (coming soon)
Veronika Krajíčková teaches English literature in the Faculty of Arts at the University of South Bohemia.
Introduction: Virginia Woolf and Process-Oriented Thought
Chapter 1: Woolf’s Conception of Things and the Relation Between Subject and Object
Chapter 2: Panpsychism and More-Than-Human Experience in Woolf’s Fiction
Chapter 3: Woolf’s Process-Oriented Identity, Intersubjective Selves, and Exploration of Community of Difference
Chapter 4: Woolf’s Criticism of Anthropocentrism and Exploitation of Nature
Conclusion: Analogies Between Literature, Philosophy, and Real Life
A book waiting to be written—and Veronika Krajíčková does so in mindful, thorough, and always informative ways.
— Melanie Sehgal, University of Wuppertal
Veronika Krajíčková’s new book demonstrates that scholars studying Virginia Woolf’s handling of materiality, ecology, ontology, ethics, and aesthetics (not to mention their entanglements!) ought to be in dialogue with the process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead. While theorists like Gilles Deleuze, Donna Haraway, Jane Bennett, and Rosi Braidotti supply the conceptual architecture for much of this kind of work in Woolf studies, Krajíčková shows the relevance of a philosopher who was Woolf’s contemporary—a thinker whose writing not only resonates with Woolf’s fiction and non-fiction but whose insistence on processual and relational models anticipates thing theory, OOO, speculative realism, and new materialism. There is much work left to do on Whitehead’s place in modernist thought and culture.
— Benjamin D. Hagen, University of South Dakota