Although the great English philosopher Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) was born more than a century too early to be a Speculative Realist, he was without question speculative, and without question a realist. Hence there is no question that a wellexecuted book on Whitehead belongs in this series; Didier Debaise himself has expressed full agreement on this point. In the seventy years since his death, Whitehead has not quite secured the place in the Western philosophical canon that will one day surely be his. While philosophy for a century and more has been polarised between the Anglo-American analytic and Continental European traditions, Whitehead falls helplessly into a crack between the two. He is perhaps too speculative and wisemanish to impress the mechanical engineers of analytic philosophy who, if they admire Whitehead at all, do so only because of his mathematical work with their icon Bertrand Russell. This attitude is best symbolised by A. W. Moore's stunning omission of Whitehead, obviously a master metaphysician, from his book The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics: an otherwise warmly inclusive volume that reaches across the aisle to welcome such debonair continental figures as Bergson, Heidegger, Derrida, and even the snowballthrowing Deleuze. Until recently, Whitehead was rarely read or mentioned by continentals either, being too different in kind from the first-wave German heroes (Kant through Heidegger) and second- wave French stars (primarily Derrida and Foucault) who filled up the pantheon of continental philosophy until the mid-1990s.