ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author argues that Jacques Derrida's work, which has been shown to be heavily informed by systems theory and evolutionary biology. It outlines briefly Alfred North Whitehead's account of essentialism and his proposed alternative. He then turns to Derrida's outline of 'the centre' and ensuing deconstruction. Finally, the author note that Whitehead's cosmology can be modified to meet the likely deconstructive objections, in that it need not involve eternal objects or God, and he maintain that his subjective aims do not preclude essential changes or evolutionary mutations on the part of actual entities. Whitehead attributes the stability of the creative process, not just to the realized past, but also to God, who is a dipolar actual entity and the equiprimordial accompaniment of creativity and the world. The theory of immutable forms existing over and above the physical world denigrates flux or process, for the things that flow are regarded as limited or imperfect.
