Virginia Woolf as a Process-Oriented Thinker: Parallels between Woolf's Fiction and Process Philosophy

Virginia Woolf and Alfred North Whitehead were both nondualist and process-oriented thinkers who criticized the materialist turn of their time and attempted to reattribute importance to experience and undermine long-rooted dualisms. Their ideas may help us adopt more ecologically friendly, selfless, intersubjective, and harmless modes of being in the present day.

Format: Hardback
Length: 200 pages
Publication date: 15 October 2023
Publisher: Lexington Books

Virginia Woolf, a nondualist and process-oriented thinker, shares striking similarities with Alfred North Whitehead despite no direct influence. Veronika Krajícková highlights their shared critique of the materialist turn of their time and their efforts to reattribute importance to experience and undermine dualisms such as subject and object, animate and inanimate, human and nonhuman, or self and other. By erasing these gaps, they anticipated poststructuralist thought, which has been associated with Woolf in recent decades. Krajícková suggests that analyzing Woolf's fiction through critical and philosophical theories developed much later is unnecessary. This book demonstrates that Woolf and Whitehead's ideas can guide us towards more ecologically friendly, selfless, intersubjective, and harmless modes of being in the present day. They emphasize the intrinsic value and importance of each constituent of reality and teach us to appreciate the aesthetic values dispersed throughout our environment.

Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781666942293