Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: The Problem of Words and Things
- 2 Nouns, Names and Signs: From Frege to Saussure
- 3 Adjectives: The Properties of the World and the ‘Bifurcation of Nature’
- 4 Verbs: Deleuze on Infinitives, Events and Process
- 5 Adverbs: Dewey on the Qualities of Existence
- 6 Prepositions: Whitehead on the ‘Withness’ of the Body
- 7 Gender and Personal Pronouns: She, He, It and They
- 8 Tone, Force and Rhetoric: Capitalism, Theology and Grammar
- 9 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2020
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: The Problem of Words and Things
- 2 Nouns, Names and Signs: From Frege to Saussure
- 3 Adjectives: The Properties of the World and the ‘Bifurcation of Nature’
- 4 Verbs: Deleuze on Infinitives, Events and Process
- 5 Adverbs: Dewey on the Qualities of Existence
- 6 Prepositions: Whitehead on the ‘Withness’ of the Body
- 7 Gender and Personal Pronouns: She, He, It and They
- 8 Tone, Force and Rhetoric: Capitalism, Theology and Grammar
- 9 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Language and ProcessWords, Whitehead and the World, pp. i - ivPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2020