Alfred North Whitehead (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Victor Lowe
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: 1910-1947
- Setting: The academic communities of England and the United States
- Principal Characters: Alfred North Whitehead, Evelyn Whitehead, Bertrand Russell
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, Pragmatism, Nature, Education or educators, Science or scientists, Religion, Immigration or emigration, War, Mathematics or mathematicians
- Locales: United States, England
The first volume of what essentially became Victor Lowe’s lifework appeared in 1985, three years before Lowe’s death in 1988. His literary executor, the present editor I B. Schneewind, has compiled the notes to the final years of Whitehead’s career and has edited the completed chapters that Lowe left behind. This volume completes a study that began in 1947, the year of Whitehead’s death and the beginning of Lowe’s faculty appointment at The Johns Hopkins University.
Alfred North Whitehead, a contemporary of Bertrand Russell and the voice of a new philosophy, combined...
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