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A Process Model
Gendlin's posthumous philosophical masterwork (1997, published 2018) — an attempt to articulate an entire metaphysics grounded in the body's living interaction with its environment rather than in substances or patterns.
A Process Model is Gendlin's most ambitious philosophical work and the culmination of six decades of thinking. Drafted in 1997 but not published until 2018 by Northwestern University Press, the book attempts what Gendlin spent most of his life circling: a complete metaphysics that takes bodily process, rather than logical patterns or metaphysical substances, as its starting point. The project is to articulate a framework in which felt sense, carrying forward, crossing, and implicit complexity are not add-ons to a standard ontology but the fundamental units from which everything else is built. The body's interaction with its environment is not representation but continuation — a living process that carries the environment forward in the body's own terms.
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The book is notoriously difficult. Gendlin was attempting something that required the invention of new vocabulary — terms like 'en#4' and 'implying' and 'eveving' — because existing philosophical language was built on the pattern-logic