Language and Process

Michael Halewood is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Essex. He is the author of Rethinking the Social through Durkheim, Marx, Weber and Whitehead (Anthem Press, 2014) and A. N. Whitehead and Social Theory: Tracing a Culture of Thought (Anthem Press, 2011). He is co-editor of Butler on Whitehead (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012). He is the translator of The Lure of Possibilities by Didier Debaise (Duke University Press, 2017).

• PrefaceIntroduction: The Problem of Words and ThingsNouns, Names and Signs: From Frege to SaussureAdjectives: The Properties of the World and the 'Bifurcation of Nature'Verbs: Deleuze on Infinitives, Events and ProcessAdverbs: Dewey on the Qualities of ExistencePrepositions: Whitehead on the Withness of the BodyGender and Personal Pronouns: She, He, It and TheyTone, Force and Rhetoric: Capitalism, Theology and GrammarConclusionBibliography

We use language all the time without worries; but when we try to actively think about how words relate to the world, we are immediately perplexed. In this book, Michael Halewood deftly winds a way through these difficulties, showing us how language is part of the world, rather than something that comments upon it from outside.