Roland Faber is the Kilsby Family/John B. Cobb, Jr. Professor of Process Studies, as well as the executive co-director of the Center for Process Studies and executive director of the Whitehead Research Project, which was founded in 2007.
Michael Halewood is senior lecturer in sociology at the University of Essex.
Deena M. Lin is a Ph.D candidate in philosophy of religion and theology at the Claremont Graduate University.

This volume is based on the first set of formal conversations which brings together the dynamic philosophies of two eminent thinkers: Judith Butler and Alfred North Whitehead. Each has drawn from a wide palette of disciplines to develop distinctive theories of becoming, of syntactical violence, and creative opportunities of limitation. In bringing together internationally renowned interpreters of Butler and Whitehead from a variety of fields and disciplines-philosophy, rhetoric, gender and queer studies, religion, literary and political theory-the editors hope to set a standard for the relevance of interdisciplinary philosophical discourse today. This volume offers a unique contribution to and for the humanities in the struggles of politics, economy, ecology, and the arts, by reaching beyond their closed circles toward understandings that may serve as the basis for the activation of humanity today. Considered together, Butler and Whitehead delineate a whole new cadre of approaches to long-standing problems as well as never-before asked questions in the humanities.

Foreword
Deena M. Lin
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Michael Halewood
Part I: Butler on Whitehead
Chapter 1: On this Occasion . . .
Judith Butler
Chapter 2: After Performativity: On Concern and Critique
Vikki Bell
Chapter 3: Provocative Reflections: Judith Butler on Subjectivity, Objectivity, and Moral Obligations
Randy Ramal
Part II: Butler and Whitehead
Chapter 4: Undoing and Unknowing: The Widening Relations of Judith Butler and Alfred North Whitehead
Catherine Keller
Chapter 5: Adventure and Risk: Exploring Creative Possibility for True Ethical Responsibility
Jeremy D. Fackenthal
Chapter 6: Coming Out with Butler and Whitehead: Opacity, Apophasis, and the Phallacy of Misplaced Closetness
Sigridur Guðmarsdóttir
Chapter 7: The Feeling of What Matters: Vectors of Power in Butler and Whitehead
Alan Van Wyk
Chapter 8: Khora and Violence: Revisiting Butler with Whitehead
Roland Faber
Chapter 9: Modes of Violence: Whitehead, Deleuze, and the Displacement of Neoliberalism
Jeffrey A. Bell
Chapter 10: Language, the Body, and the Problem of Signification
Michael Halewood
Chapter 11: The Objects Have Been Equal to the Occasion
Astrid Lorange
Part III: On Butler On Mourning
Chapter 12: Prehending Precarity: Presenting a Social Ontology that Feels Beyond the Frame
Deena M. Lin
Chapter 13: Which Lives Are Grievable?
Daniel A. Dombrowski
Chapter 14: Loss of 'Self,' Grievability of Life, and Reharmonizing Political Potential
Kirsten M. Gerdes
Chapter 15: "A Tender Care That Nothing Be Lost"-Universal Salvation and Eternal Loss in Butler and Whitehead?
Roland Faber
Chapter 16: Occasioned by "On this Occasion": More Thoughts on Butler and Whitehead
Catherine Keller
Chapter 17: The Inappropriate Tenderness of the Divine: Mono No Aware and the Recovery of Loss in Whitehead's Axiology
Matthew S. LoPresti