Essays on Deleuze

Essays on Deleuze

This book brings together seventeen key essays by one of the world's leading commentators on the work of the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze.

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Daniel W. Smith is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University.

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I. Deleuze and the History of Philosophy
Plato
Deleuze and the Overturning of Platonism: The Concept of the Simulacrum
Univocity
The Doctrine of Univocity: Deleuze's Ontology of Immanence
Leibniz
Deleuze on Leibniz: Difference, Continuity, and the Calculus
Hegel
Deleuze, Hegel, and the Post-Kantian Tradition
Pre- and Post-Kantianism
Logic and Existence: Deleuze on the Conditions of the Real
II. Five Deleuzian Concepts
Desire
Deleuze and the Question of Desire: Toward an Immanent Theory of Ethics
The New
The Conditions of the New
Life
A Life of Pure Immanence": Deleuze's "Critique et clinique" Project
Sensation
Deleuze on Bacon: Three Conceptual Trajectories in "The Logic of Sensation"
The Open
The Idea of the Open
III. Deleuze's Philosophical System
Aesthetics
Deleuze's Theory of Sensation: Overcoming the Kantian Duality
Dialectics
Deleuze, Kant, and the Theory of Immanent Ideas
Analytics
Concepts, Time, and Truth
Ethics
The Place of Ethics in Deleuze's Philosophy: Three Questions of Immanence
Politics
Flow, Code, and Stock: A Note on Deleuze's Political Philosophy
IV. Deleuze and Contemporary Philosophy
Jacques Derrida
Deleuze and Derrida, Immanence and Transcendence: Two Directions in Recent French Thought
Alain Badiou
Mathematics and the Theory of Multiplicities: Deleuze and Badiou Revisited
Jacques Lacan
The Inverse Side of the Structure: Zizek on Deleuze on Lacan
Pierre Klossowski
Klossowski's Reading of Nietzsche: Impulses, Phantasms, Simulacra, Stereotypes
Paul Patton
Deleuze and the Liberal Tradition: Normativity, Freedom, and Judgment.