Without Criteria: Kant, Whitehead, Deleuze, and Aesthetics

by Steven Shaviro

Book Overview

A Deleuzian reading of Whitehead and a Whiteheadian reading of Deleuze open the possibility of a critical aesthetics of contemporary culture.

In Without Criteria, Steven Shaviro proposes and explores a philosophical fantasy: imagine a world in which Alfred North Whitehead takes the place of Martin Heidegger. What if Whitehead, instead of Heidegger, had set the agenda for postmodern thought? Heidegger asks, "Why is there something,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262517973
• ISBN13: 9780262517973
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher