From Individuality to Ecological Attunement in Whitehead and Deleuze
| dc.contributor.advisor | Toadvine, Ted | |
| dc.contributor.author | Duvernoy, Russell | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-04-10T15:08:41Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-04-10 | |
| dc.description.abstract | My dissertation explores the ecological implications of a process metaphysics, focusing in particular on subjectivity. Primarily using the work of Whitehead and Deleuze, I explore how taking a process metaphysics seriously undoes the assumption that an individual self is a discretely bounded and independent subject. I argue that this framework troubles expansive identifications of the self with a unified whole that one finds in some metaphysically inflected strands of environmental thought (for example Deep Ecology). Instead, it encourages an orientation towards the qualitative and affective aspects of micro-relational moments, since these are the most ‘real’ metaphysically. Macro-level entities such as the self (as well as other ‘wholes’) are understood as abstractions from these primary occasions. I consider the existential impacts of taking these views seriously, in particular with regard to the transformed standing of tertiary or affective qualities that follows from the metaphysical view developed. | en_US |
| dc.description.embargo | 10000-01-01 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/23174 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | University of Oregon | |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US | |
| dc.subject | Deleuze | en_US |
| dc.subject | Gilles | en_US |
| dc.subject | Ecology | en_US |
| dc.subject | Process metaphysics | en_US |
| dc.subject | Subjectivity | en_US |
| dc.subject | Whitehead | en_US |
| dc.subject | Alfred North | en_US |
| dc.title | From Individuality to Ecological Attunement in Whitehead and Deleuze | |
| dc.type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation | |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Department of Philosophy | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | University of Oregon | |
| thesis.degree.level | doctoral | |
| thesis.degree.name | Ph.D. |
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