Integration and Difference

This groundbreaking work synthesizes concepts from thirteen crucial philosophers and psychologists, relating how the ancient problem of opposites has been opening to an integration which not only conserves differentiation but enacts it, especially through the integration of myth into the dialectic.

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Grant Maxwell is an editor of the Archai journal and he holds a PhD from the City University of New York's Graduate Center. He is the author of multiple books including The Dynamics of Transformation: Tracing an Emerging World View, and he has written for Deleuze and Guattari Studies, the American Philosophical Association blog, American Songwriter magazine, and the Journal of Religion and Popular Culture.

Inhalt

Introduction: Turning Deconstruction on Its Head 1. The Final Writing of an Epoch: Jacques Derrida's Of Grammatology 2. Freedom of Mind: Baruch Spinoza's Ethics 3. Well-Founded Fictions: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's Monadology 4. The Life of the Whole: G.W.F. Hegel's On Scientific Cognition 5. God-Positing Potencies: F.W.J. Schelling's Berlin Lectures 6. Something Higher Than Any Reconciliation: Friedrich Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy 7. An Integrated Affair: William James' Pragmatism 8. A True Work of Integration: Henri Bergson's Creative Evolution 9. The Process of Integration: Alfred North Whitehead's Process and Reality 10. A Widening of Consciousness Through Integration: C.G. Jung's Mysterium Coniunctionis 11. Integrating Myth Into the Dialectic: Gilles Deleuze's Difference and Repetition 12. Disintegrated Integration: James Hillman's Re-Visioning Psychology 13. The Question of Integration: Concluding with Isabelle Stengers Bibliography