Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology.

WHITEHEAD, Alfred North.

Item Number: 100082

New York: Macmillan & Company, 1929.

First edition of Alfred North Whitehead’s magnum opus. Octavo, original blue cloth. In near fine condition with the spine gilt bright and fresh. An exceptional example.

One of the major philosophical texts of the 20th century, Process and Reality is based on Alfred North Whitehead’s influential lectures that he delivered at the University of Edinburgh in the 1920s on process philosophy. Whitehead’s master work in philosophy, Process and Reality propounds a system of speculative philosophy, known as process philosophy, in which the various elements of reality into a consistent relation to each other. It is also an exploration of some of the preeminent thinkers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, such as Descartes, Newton, Locke, and Kant.