Virginia Woolf's "Ontoethics" in Her Late Oeuvre from the Perspective of Alfred North Whitehead's Philosophy of Organism

In "A Sketch of the Past," Virginia Woolf introduces her personal philosophy, her own ontology, based on the idea that all human and nonhuman beings are interconnected in a single work of art. This idea is foregrounded in her novels The Waves, Between the Acts, and the pacifist manifesto T...

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Published in:Process studies
Main Author: Krajickova, Veronika (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Illinois Press 2021
In: Process studies
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Whitehead, Alfred North 1861-1947 / Woolf, Virginia 1882-1941 / Ontology / Human being / Organism
RelBib Classification:CD Christianity and Culture
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
NCA Ethics
VB Hermeneutics; Philosophy
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Summary:In "A Sketch of the Past," Virginia Woolf introduces her personal philosophy, her own ontology, based on the idea that all human and nonhuman beings are interconnected in a single work of art. This idea is foregrounded in her novels The Waves, Between the Acts, and the pacifist manifesto Three Guineas, where Woolf fully develops her "ontoethics," which consists in ontological interconnection of human beings and recognition of value of every human and nonhuman being. This article discusses this universal relationality via Alfred North Whitehead's philosophy of organism, which emphasizes the interrelatedness of all constituents of reality and solidarity that springs from this ontological bond.
ISSN:2154-3682
Contains:Enthalten in: Process studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.5840/process202150212