Symbolism: Its Meaning and Effect

By Alfred North Whitehead
The Macmillan Co., 1927. Fordham University Press, 1985

This book presents Whitehead's response to the epistemological challenges of Hume and Kant in its most vivid and direct form. Written in a style devoid of the metaphysical intricacies of his later publications, this work makes both Whitehead's theory of perception and his more general insights into the function of symbols in human culture and society accessible to the scholarly community.