by Joseph Petek, Assistant Editor, Critical Edition of Whitehead Shortly after posting last week’s blog about Whitehead’s influence on Martin Luther King Jr., we discovered another oblique connection between King and Whitehead that we had overlooked: the introductory course on Plato that King attended in 1952–53 was taught by none other than Raphael Demos, Whitehead’s… Read More Whitehead and Raphael Demos
By Brian G. Henning, Executive Editor, Critical Edition of Whitehead[1] It is not yet widely known that Martin Luther King, Jr. was influenced by Alfred North Whitehead’s philosophy of organism. In honor of Martin Luther King day 2022, we thought we’d share what we’ve learned about this unexpected connection. I first learned of the connection… Read More A. N. Whitehead’s Influence on Martin Luther King Jr.
It’s the end of another year, and it’s been an exciting one for the Critical Edition of Whitehead. Our most important milestone this year was, of course, the appearance of the second volume of Whitehead’s Harvard Lectures (HL2), published by Edinburgh University Press in January. The product of many years of work and collated from… Read More Critical Edition of Whitehead year-end update, winter 2021
Available from Edinburgh University Press Amazon We’re happy to announce that our anthology, Whitehead at Harvard, 1924-1925, is now available in paperback for $24.95/£19.99. This collection of new research by leading scholars explores the significance of the first volume of the Critical Edition of Whitehead. For a limited time, use the code PAPER30 on EUP’s store… Read More Whitehead at Harvard, 1924–1925 is out in paperback + EUP FLASH SALE
We recently received an email from our friend Rachel Hassall, the Archivist over at Sherborne School—Whitehead’s school from 1875–1880—who wanted to let us know about some of the records she’d discovered about a young Whitehead participating in the Debating Society. In his A History of Sherborne School (1979), A. B. Gourlay described the Debating Society:… Read More Teenage Whitehead and the Sherborne School Debating Society
We are excited to begin this quarterly update by announcing that Brian G. Henning and Joe Petek have been joined by Dr. Robert J. Valenza as a named editor for the first volume of Whitehead’s Collected Papers (CP1), which will include all of Whitehead’s published and unpublished articles written between 1886 and 1918. Dr. Valenza… Read More Critical Edition of Whitehead quarterly update, fall 2021
This is our second update since the publication of the second volume of the Critical Edition, which covers Whitehead’s second and third year of Harvard lectures. It was published in late January in the UK and in late February in the US. As of this writing, the discount code “NEW30” still works for a 30%… Read More Critical Edition of Whitehead quarterly update, summer 2021
Available from Lexington Books Amazon Whitehead and the Pittsburgh School: Preempting the Problem of Intentionality Lisa Landoe HedrickPublication Date: May, 2021 Whitehead and the Pittsburgh School: Preempting the Problem of Intentionality proposes a revisionary history of the relationship between Alfred North Whitehead and analytic philosophy, as well as a constructive proposal for how thinking with Whitehead… Read More Whitehead and the Pittsburgh School
In order to allow scholars more time to read the recently published second volume of Whitehead’s Harvard lectures (HL2) and respond to our call for papers, the Second Critical Edition of Whitehead Conference has been rescheduled for Fall 2022, and will now take place on Friday and Saturday, 16–17 September 2022, 9:00am–1:00pm PST (GMT-8). The conference will still be held… Read More Second Critical Edition of Whitehead Conference Rescheduled for Fall 2022
This is our first update since the publication of the second volume of the Critical Edition, which covers Whitehead’s second and third year of Harvard lectures. It was published in late January in the UK and in late February in the US. For a limited time, the book is available through EUP’s website with a… Read More Critical Edition of Whitehead quarterly update, spring 2021
