Science and the Modern World-Hardcover

The essential features of Alfred North Whitehead's organismic philosophy are already known to an audience beyond his fellow philosophers. In an attempt to explain the wide-ranging influence of Whitehead's thought, Ernest Nagel says: “His philosophical writings express some of the dynamic tensions of the society in which he lived; It responds to deep-rooted and widely felt needs. Nagel adds: “Whitehead was a perceptive and wise speaker with an extraordinary ability to address all things emerging, risky, and potentially liberating.”

Science and the Modern World, perhaps Whitehead's most widely read philosophical work, is essentially based on the eight-lecture Lowell Lectures series given at Harvard University in 1925. Whitehead himself writes that this book “embodies a study of certain aspects of Western culture that have been influenced by the development of science over the past three centuries.” “The crux of the book,” he says, “is the feeling of the irresistible importance of a dominant philosophy.” John Dewey calls Science and the Modern World “the most important reappraisal for the general reader of the present relations between science, philosophy, and the emergent matters of life.” Herbert Read writes: “This is the most important book published on the common field of science and philosophy since Descartes's Discourse on Method. It embodies the content of a revolution in our entire concept of life and existence, and tries to reinterpret the categories not only of science and philosophy, but also of religion and art.” Edmund Wilson states the following: "In Whitehead... it is possible to observe the astonishing metamorphoses and reorganization of thought within a single mind, in the movement of radically new ideas in various fields of experience, in the hands of an enthusiastic intelligence and a daring imagination." And Julian Huxley says, "One of the books that left its mark on an era."

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Translation: Serkan Çalcı

Cover Design: Bora President

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Size: 14 x 20

First Printing Year: 2018

Number of Printings: 1st Printing