@article{Whiteheadian:2616,
      recid = {2616},
      author = {Gregg, David Curtis},
      title = {Artificial Gods: Whiteheadian Aesthetics and the Art of  the Theater},
      publisher = {The University of Chicago},
      school = {Ph.D.},
      address = {2020-08},
      pages = {266},
      abstract = {The cosmology of Alfred North Whitehead is notable for its  privileging of the concept of creativity as inhabiting the  “category of the ultimate” and the concept of beauty as the  aim toward which creation strives. The goal of this  dissertation is to describe what an aesthetic philosophy,  that is, a philosophy of art, would be based on such a  cosmology. The first two chapters represent a constructive  attempt to articulate such an aesthetics in the abstract.  The final three look at the art of the theater in the  English Renaissance and in the work of Samuel Beckett to  see whether these canons evince an implicit aesthetic that  reinforces the Whiteheadian model put forth. Finally, this  procedure is used to indicate a feature of Whiteheadian  cosmology that seems under-appreciated by Whitehead’s  followers, the concrescence (making concrete) of the divine  desire for beauty in human experience.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/2616},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.2616},
}