Integration and Difference: Constructing a Mythical Dialectic

by Grant Maxwell

This groundbreaking work synthesizes concepts from thirteen crucial philosophers and psychologists, relating how the ancient problem of opposites has been opening to an integration which not only conserves differentiation but enacts it, especially through the integration of myth into the dialectic.

Weaving a fascinating narrative that 'thinks with' the complex encounters of theorists from Baruch Spinoza, G. W. F. Hegel, Friedrich Nietzsche, and William James to Alfred North Whitehead, C. G. Jung, Gilles Deleuze, and Isabelle Stengers, this book uniquely performs the convergence of continental philosophy, pragmatism, depth psychology, and constructivist 'postmodern' theory as a complement to the trajectory culminating in Jacques Derrida's deconstruction.

This is an important book for professionals and academics working across the humanities and social sciences, particularly for continental theorists and depth psychologists interested in the construction of a novel epoch after the modern.

348 pages, ebook

Published June 30, 2022

About the author

Grant Maxwell is the author of "How Does It Feel?: Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, and the Philosophy of Rock and Roll" and "The Walk", a children's book illustrated by his mother-in-law, Susan Edwards. Maxwell has served as a professor of English at Baruch College in New York, he holds a PhD from the City University of New York's Graduate Center, and he's an editor at Archai: the Journal of Archetypal Cosmology. He's also a musician, and he lives in East Nashville, Tennessee with his wife and son.