Virginia Woolf as a Process-Oriented Thinker: Parallels Between Woolf's Fiction and Process Philosophy introduces Virginia Woolf as a nondualist and process-oriented thinker whose ideas are, despite no direct influence, strikingly similar to those of Alfred North Whitehead. Veronika Krajícková argues that in their respective fields, literature and philosophy, Woolf and Whitehead both criticized the materialist turn of their time and attempted to reattribute importance to experience and undermine long-rooted dualisms such as subject and object, the animate and the inanimate, the human and the nonhuman, or the self and the other. By erasing the gaps between these dualities, the two thinkers anticipated the poststructuralist thought with which Woolf has been anachronically associated in the last decades. Krajícková shows that there is no need to analyze Woolf's fiction via critical and philosophical theories that developed much later. This book demonstrates that Woolf and Whitehead's ideas may help us adopt more ecologically friendly, selfless, intersubjective, and harmless modes of being in the present day. Both figures emphasize the intrinsic value and importance of each constituent of reality and teach us to appreciate the aesthetic values dispersed throughout our environment.
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Virginia Woolf as a Process-Oriented Thinker: Parallels between Woolf's Fiction and Process Philosophy
Veronika Krajícková teaches English literature in the Faculty of Arts at the University of South Bohemia.
Working from that sweet spot where philosophy and literature intersect, Veronika Krajíčková writes about parallels between the fiction of Virginia Woolf and the speculative philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead. Though Woolf and Whitehead did not know one another well, they had an affinity through their similar reactions to the crises of early-twentieth-century modernity. They both sought to develop a richer account of the world's entanglements and interconnections than was available in the official culture of their day. Krajíčková beautifully brings out the parallels between Woolf and Whitehead, and their shared search for the re-enchantment of our lives in the cosmos.
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