Processism and Relationality: Inter-Philosophical and Under-Explored Perspectives – Hardcover

This book brings leading scholars into dialogue to rethink metaphysics beyond substance-based frameworks. Drawing on African, East Asian, South Asian, Indigenous American, European, and Islamic traditions, the volume demonstrates that process-relational thinking is neither exclusively Western nor modern. Through sustained analyses of relationality, becoming, vitality, and change, contributors excavate convergent metaphysical insights from under-explored philosophical cultures, from If and Nahua thought to Buddhist, Daoist, and Islamic metaphysics. Structured across five thematic parts, the volume advances process philosophy as a genuinely global and comparative enterprise, addressing enduring metaphysical, ethical, theological, and environmental questions resistant to substance metaphysics. Combining historical depth with contemporary application, this collection offers a landmark intervention in intercultural philosophy, decolonial thought, and global metaphysics, and establishes a new reference point for future work in process-relational philosophy.