Books By Members

The following is a partial list of books published by WRP’s Directors, Editorial Advisory Board, and Research Members.

For a complete list of books by WRP Founder Roland Faber, see this page.

For a complete list of books in the Contemporary Whitehead Studies series, see this page.

George Allan

  • Higher Education in the Making: Whitehead, Pragmatism, and the Canon. SUNY Press, 2004.
  • Modes of Learning: Whitehead’s Metaphysics and the Stages of Education. SUNY Press, 2012.

Mohammed Ali Benmakhlouf

  • Whitehead, l’univers solidaire, université Paris X Nanterre.

Maria Regina Brioschi

  • Processo e realtà (Italian translation), Bompiani, 2019.

André Cloots

  • (with Keith Robinson). Deleuze, Whitehead and the transformations of metaphysics. Brussel: Koninklijke Vlaamse academie van België voor wetenschappen en kunsten, 2005.
  • (with Santiago Sia). Framing a vision of the world: essays in philosophy, science and religion. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1999.

Didier Debaise

  • Un empirisme spéculatif. Paris, Vrin, 2006.
  • L’appât des possibles – Reprise de Whitehead. Paris, Presses du réel, 2015.
  • Nature as Event: The Lure of the Possible. Translated by Michael Halewood. Duke University Press, 2017.
  • (with Isabelle Stengers) Speculative Empiricism: Revisiting Whitehead. Translated by Tomas Joseph Weber. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2017.

Ronny Desmet

  • Intuition in Mathematics and Physics: A Whiteheadian Approach (Toward Ecological Civilization, Volume 10). Process Century Press, 2016.
  • (with Michel Weber) Whitehead: The Algebra of Metaphysics. Les Editions Chromatika, 2010.

Daniel A. Dombrowski

  • Whitehead’s Religious Thought: From Mechanism to Organism, From Force to Persuasion. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2017.
  • Process Philosophy and Political Liberalism: Rawls, Whitehead, Hartshorne. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019.

Jean-Claude Dumoncel

  • Deleuze, Wahl, Whitehead, & Wittgenstein. Livre’L, 2010.
  • Les 7 mots de Whitehead. L’Unebévue, 1998.
  • (with Michel Weber) Whitehead ou le cosmos torrentiel. Chromatika, 2010.

Guillaume Durand

  • Des événements aux objets. La méthode de l’abstraction extensive chez Alfred North Whitehead. Frankfurt / Paris / Lancaster, Ontos Verlag (diff. Vrin), 2007.
  • (with Michel Weber) Les principes de la connaissance naturelle d’Alfred North Whitehead, Frankfurt / Paris / Lancaster, Ontos Verlag, 2007.

Roland Faber

  • The Mind of Whitehead: Adventure in Ideas (Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2023)
  • Depths As Yet Unspoken: Whiteheadian Excursions in Mysticism, Multiplicity, and Divinity (Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2020)
  • The Becoming of God: Process Theology, Philosophy, and Multireligious Engagement (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2017).
  • The Divine Manifold (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2014).
  • God as Poet of the World: Exploring Process Theologies (Louisville: WJK, 2008). German edition: Gott als Poet der Welt. Anliegen und Perspektiven der Prozesstheologie. 2nd corrected edition (Darmstadt: WBG, 2004).

Michael Halewood

  • A. N. Whitehead and Social Theory. Tracing a Culture of Thought (Anthem Press, 2011).
  • Rethinking the Social through Durkheim, Weber, Marx and Whitehead (Anthem Press 2014).

Brian Henning

  • The Ethics of Creativity: Beauty, Morality, and Nature in a Processive Cosmos (University of Pittsburgh Press 2005).
  • Riders in the Storm: Ethics in an Age of Climate Change (Winona: Anselm Academic, 2015).

J. R. Hustwit

  • Interreligious Hermeneutics and the Pursuit of Truth. Lexington Books, 2014.

Catherine Keller

  • The Cloud of the Impossible: Negative Theology and Planetary Entanglement. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014.
  • On the Mystery: Discerning Divinity in Process. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2008.
  • Face of the Deep: A Theology of Becoming. London: Routledge, 2003. German edition: Über das Geheimnis: Gott erkennen im Werden der Welt. Eine Prozesstheologie. Translated by Angelika Reichl. Freiburg: Verlag Herder, 2013.
  • God and Power: Counter-Apocalyptic Journeys. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2005.

Spyridon Koutroufinis

  • (with René Pikarski) Unprecedented Evolution: Continuities and Discontinuities between Humans and Animals. River Lane Anoka, MN: Process Century Press. Forthcoming 2017.
  • Life and Process. Towards a New Biophilosophy. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2014.
  • Prozesse des Lebendigen. Friburg/Munich: Alber, 2007.

George R. Lucas

  • The Rehabilitation of Whitehead: An Analytic and Historical Assessment of Process Philosophy. Albany, NY: The State University of New York Press, 1989.
  • The Genesis of Modern Process Thought: A Historical Outline with Bibliography. London and Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1983. “American Theological Library Association Bibliographical Essay Series, #13.”
  • Two Views of Freedom in Process Thought: A Study of Hegel and Whitehead. “American Academy of Religion Dissertation Series.” Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1979.

Derek Malone-France

  • Deep Empiricism: Kant, Whitehead, and the Necessity of Philosophical Theism. Lexington Books/Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2006.

Erin Manning

  • Relationscapes (MIT Press, 2009).
  • Always More Than One (Duke UP 2012).
  • The Minor Gesture (Duke UP 2016).

Brian Massumi

  • Semblance and Event: Activist Philosophy and the Occurrent Arts (MIT Press, 2011).
  • What Animals Teach Us about Politics (Duke University Press, 2014).
  • (with Erin Manning) Thought in the Act: Passages in the Ecology of Experience (University of Minnesota Press, 2014).

Leemon McHenry

  • The Event Universe: The Revisionary Metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead. Edinburgh University Press, 2015.
  • Whitehead and Bradley: A Comparative Analysis. SUNY Series in Systematic Philosophy. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992.

Steve Odin

  • Process Metaphysics & Hua-Yen Buddhism (1982, SUNY Press).
  • The Social Self in Zen & American Pragmatism (1991, SUNY Press).
  • Tragic Beauty in Whitehead & Japanese Aesthetics (2016, Lexington Press).

Joseph Petek

  • Unearthing the Unknown Whitehead (2022, Lexington Press).

Keith Robinson

  • Deleuze, Whitehead, Bergson: Rhizomatic Connections (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).

Stascha Rohmer

  • Whiteheads Synthese von Kreativität und Rationalität: Reflexion und Transformation in Alfred North Whiteheads Philosophie der Natur. Karl Alber Publishing House, Freiburg/Munich, 2000.
  • Alfred North Whitehead, Denkweisen (Modes of Thought), German translation. Suhrkamp Publishing House, stw 1532, Frankfurt-on-the-Main, 2001.

Philip Rose

  • On Whitehead. Cengage Learning, 2001.

Adam Scarfe

  • The Adventure of Education: Process Philosophers on Learning, Teaching, and Research. Rodopi, 2009.

Steven Shaviro

  • Without Criteria: Kant, Whitehead, Deleuze, and Aesthetics (MIT Press, 2009).
  • The Universe of Things: On Speculative Realism (University of Minnesota Press, 2014).
  • Discognition (Repeater Books, 2016).

Olav Bryant Smith

  • Myths of the Self: Narrative Identity and Postmodern Metaphysics. Lexington Books, 2004.