HT Adam/
Knowledge Ecology. Link
HERE. Here is the best part of the review, but note that I was making the same criticism about a year ago when
my review of the book was published.
As with several other of these newer approaches, one of the
(unfortunate) fault-lines of Stengers’ endeavor is that, when its
sources remain hidden, it contradicts the Whiteheadian spirit of
recollection, rediscovery and synthesis in ever new concrescences.
Originality (creativity) must not suppress the traditions on which it
stands; in particular, a hundred years of Whiteheadian scholarship in
process theology that is left in silence. It is sad that a rediscovery
of Whitehead should narrow the creative synthesis down by being
dominated by such a negative prehension. Granted that from afar one
might not see the inner diversity and rich potential of process
theology's rhizomatic development, but to think that to name
"God" (anew) in (Whitehead's) philosophy today is original when it in
fact rehearses positions process theology has developed over the last
century still leaves me with a question: Is freedom from the past
necessarily coupled with its oblivion?
