ABSTRACT
The development of a conceptuality requires sustained and concentrated thinking. Some analysis of experience and its role in providing data for speculative thinking has concerned process thinkers. But it seems that, while process thinkers have always stressed the concreteness of experience, the methodology followed has always run the risk of losing the very concreteness of experience. There is after all a difference between analysing 'concrete experience' or applying the process metaphysical scheme to 'other concrete experiences', and appreciating experience 'in its very concreteness'. This chapter suggests how the dialogue between literature and philosophy can be grounded in Alfred North Whitehead's thought. It indicates why the methodological task of preserving the concreteness of experience, specifically in literature, is an important one for process thought. Whitehead regards the word 'experience' as 'one of the most deceitful in philosophy'. What makes human experience distinctive is that it includes thinking. For Whitehead, literature is a way of capturing the concreteness of experience.
