Northrop Frye vs. Alfred North Whitehead
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Northrop Frye
1912 – 1991
Herman Northrop Frye was a Canadian literary critic and literary theorist, considered one of the most influential of the 20th century.
"Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its …"
Alfred North Whitehead
1861 – 1947
Alfred North Whitehead was an English mathematician and philosopher. He created the philosophical school known as process philosophy, which has been applied in a wide variety of disciplines, including ecology, theology, education, physics, biology, economics, and psychology.
"A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content."
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