Sherburne, Donald W.  A Key to Whitehead's Process and Reality. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1971.

Abstract

Mr. Sherburne has here painstakingly organized for philosophy students a comprehensive guideline to Alfred North Whitehead's Process and Reality. Mr. Sherburne feels that the lack of such a guideline has been due, in part, to Whitehead's "weblike exposition" and thus, monumental opacity. In an effort to pull together the abundant riches to be gotten from Whitehead's philosophy, the editor reshapes the structure of Process and Reality into a more linear exposition so that the reader is drawn nearer to the significance of its content. While the editor has emphasized the more fundamental topics in Whitehead's system, it is, nevertheless, Whitehead himself who speaks - but the editor has drawn together Whitehead's scattered comments into a pattern that leads the student logically and coherently into that system. Most important, Whitehead's vigorous flavor and frequently brilliant prose are maintained to provide a concise and useful presentation of his thought.