This was not to be one further elucidation
of Whitehead's «philosophy
of organism,» but Leclerc's own detailed
recounting of how we must recover a few basic presuppositions if we are ever to elucidate a philosophy
of nature
worthy of our post-Whiteheadian era — an era unhappily determined to grapple with the complexities
of contemporary science by leaving Whitehead aside.