Heidegger and Whitehead : a phenomenological examination into the intelligibility of experience /

Some readers in the Continental traditions may be familiar with parallels between Heidegger's Being and Time and, say, John Dewey's Experience and Nature, but few will be with the parallels in thinking between Heidegger and Whitehead. Cooper attempts such a study with only modest success by interpreting Whitehead's complex of concepts centering on an "actual occasion" in light of Heidegger's existential/transcendental analytic of human Dasein. The book has genuine merits and insights (especially in chapters 5 and 6 on Heidegger's notions of existential temporality and spatiality), but it does very little by way of introducing either Heidegger's or Whitehead's difficult terminology to nonspecialists. Recommended only for advanced students in philosophy and religion who have already done significant work in either author. Upper-level undergraduate and above. R. M. Stewart; Austin College