Martin Heidegger’s
Being and Time
can be broadly termed a transcendental inquiry into the structures that make human experience possible. Such an inquiry reveals the conditions that render human experience intelligible. Using
as a model, I attempt to show that Alfred North Whitehead’s
Process and Reality
not only aligns with
in opposing many elements of traditional Western philosophy but also exhibits a similar transcendental inquiry.
With this reading,
contains concepts much like Being-in-the-world, ecstatic temporality, and others found in
. More important, this interpretation considers Whitehead’s treatment of human experience paradigmatic for understanding his cosmological scheme in general. Finally, the results of this study are employed to sketch a phenomenology of holy experience.
— Prefatory Note to
Heidegger and Whitehead