Aspects of Whitehead's Philosophy of Organism

Vesselin Petrov's new book on Whitehead is an analysis of "some specific features of his teachings, such as his views concerning rationality, dynamic holism, things and objects, events, anticipation, creativity, nature, organism, and life" (Petrov, 2019: 7). The book is a real achievement for the genre: a monographic thematical study of a comprehensive author's philosophy as "a philosophy of organism". Alfred Whitehead is a unique, difficult to understand thinker who introduces new concepts and new meanings of traditional and modern concepts. Prof. Vesselin Petrov is an author of a series of works on Whitehead and processual philosophy and editor of collections of articles on processual philosophy and Whitehead. The author is one of the leaders in modern Whiteheadianism. Professor Petrov has been the Executive Director (2015 - 2017) of the International Process Network. Whitehead is a unique thinker who creates a philosophy entirely of a non-classical type. Whitehead's philosophy is postmodern in the meaning introduced twenty years before French postmodernism as a constructive outcome of Modernism. For Whitehead, unique, modernism proves to be anti-rational. His philosophy is different from both the continental and the analytic.