Readers of the American Journal of Theology and Philosophy may be confused by James Williams's The Egalitarian Sublime: A Process Philosophy if they are looking at the “Process Philosophy” of the title as having something to do with Whitehead, Hartshorne, and their followers. None of the process thinkers familiar to the Anglo-American audience make their way into The Egalitarian Sublime. Among Process Philosophy's better known European expositors, Bergson is mentioned only once. Rather, Williams engages more recent continental and analytic discussions of the sublime along with the main traditions of the sublime running through European thought from Burke, Kant, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche. The mention of Bergson points to one connection between Williams and what Anglo-Americans normally think when they think of Process Philosophy and that is Gilles Deleuze. James Williams is a leading expositor of Deleuze in English having written several important expositions of Deleuze's thought. The lone endorsement...

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