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Dewey Decimal Number: 192
EAN num: 9781567921298
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Label: David R Godine
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Page Count: 385
Printing Date: August 01, 2001
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Philosopher and man of science, Whitehead is the man who went farthest on the road we all must travel. Here, recorded as conversations in his own home and clearly modeled on Eckermann s dialogues with Goethe, are some of the landmarks, signposts, milestones and noble scenery of that journey, and they are presented there in a volume The Washington Post called 'as readable as it is provocative.' Whitehead's mind is a compass for the modern world. In these pages the immense reaches of his thought in philosophy, religion, science, statesmanship, education, literature, art and conduct of life are gathered and edited by critic and writer Lucien Price. Time, the present; scene, the Cambridge of Harvard (with flashbacks to London, Cambridge, England, and his native Ramsgate in Kent); cast, undergraduates along with men and women, often eminent, who join in his penetrating, audacious, and exhilarating verbal forays. The subjects discussed range for the homeliest details of modern living to the greatest ideas that have animated the mind of man over the past thirty centuries. A noble mind is here exposed.
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The more you read in this book the more you will resent the fact that the author/editor was able to spend time with Dr. Whitehead and you couldn't. We are offered an intimate view of Whitehead's breadth of interests and his famiylife. We sit in the home sharing refreshment and easvesdropping on the conversations. We gain a feeling of knowing the very human philosopher. If you enjoy the Autocrat of the Breakfast Table and the like, you will read this again and again.
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I read this as a freshman in college, again years later, and am finishing my latest reading. A pleasure to read, forcing one to think. Some of the ideas are clearly dated, Whitehead being truly of the 19th century, but what he and the other discussants say makes one think.
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