The Cambridge Companion to Deleuze

Daniel W. Smith, Henry Somers-Hall

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9781107002616
• eBook ISBN:
  9781107481879
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Modern Philosophy

Gilles Deleuze (1925–95) was an influential and provocative twentieth-century thinker who developed and presented an alternative to the image of thought found in traditional philosophy. This volume offers an extensive survey of Deleuze's philosophy by some of his most influential interpreters. The essays give lucid accounts of the fundamental themes of his metaphysical work and its ethical and political implications. They clearly situate his thinking within the philosophical tradition, with detailed studies of his engagements with phenomenology, post-Kantianism and the sciences, and also his interventions in the arts. As well as offering new research on established areas of Deleuze scholarship, several essays address key themes that have not previously been given the attention they deserve in the English-speaking world.

Table of contents

• Cover
• THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO DELEUZE
• Series Page
• Title
• Copyright
• CONTENTS
• CONTRIBUTORS
• ABBREVIATIONS
• Introduction
• 1 Deleuze and the history of philosophy
• 2 Difference and Repetition
• 3 The Deleuzian reversal of Platonism
• 4 Deleuze and Kant
• 5 Phenomenology and metaphysics, and chaos: on the fragility of the event in Deleuze
• 6 Deleuze and structuralism
• 7 Deleuze and Guattari: Guattareuze & Co.
• 8 Nomadic ethics
• 9 Deleuze’s political philosophy
• 10 Deleuze, mathematics, and realist ontology
• 11 Deleuze and life
• 12 Deleuze’s aesthetics of sensation
• 13 Deleuze and literature
• 14 Deleuze and psychoanalysis
• 15 Deleuze’s philosophical heritage: unity, difference, and onto-theology
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• INDEX