Gilles Deleuze and Metaphysics

This collection examines an aspect of Gilles Deleuze's thought that has largely been neglected; whether or not Deleuze was a metaphysician. Answering this question may reveal the problematic nature of so-called postmodernism and the critique it leveled at the first philosophy, and it may help readers to better understand philosophy's fate.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Leaving Metaphysics? Deleuze on the Event, Alberto Anelli
Chapter 2: Mathematics, Structure, Metaphysics: Deleuze and Category Theory, Rocco Gangle
Chapter 3: Difference and Speculation: Heidegger, Meillassoux, and Deleuze
on Sufficient Reason, Sjoerd van Tuinen
Chapter 4: The Physics of Sense: Bruno, Schelling, Deleuze , Joshua Ramey and Daniel Whistler
Chapter 5: The Obscure Metaphysics of Gilles Deleuze, Julia Sushytska
Chapter 6: Deleuze and Badiou on Being and the Event, Alain Beaulieu
Chapter 7: Disanalogous Being: Deleuze, Spinoza, and Univocal Metaphysics, Adrian Switzer
Chapter 8: Crowned Anarchies, Substantial Attributes, and the Transcendental
Problem of Stupidity, Gregory Kalyniuk
Chapter 9: Revolution and the Return of Metaphysics, Thomas Nail
Chapter 10: Whence Intensity? Deleuze and the Revival of a Concept, Mary Beth Mader

About the author

Alain Beaulieu is associate professor of Philosophy at Laurentian University.

Edward Kazarian teaches in the Philosophy and Religion Studies Department at Rowan University.

Julia Sushytska teaches at Pacifica Graduate Institute.

Summary

This collection examines an aspect of Gilles Deleuze’s thought that has largely been neglected; whether or not Deleuze was a metaphysician. Answering this question may reveal the problematic nature of so-called postmodernism and the critique it leveled at the first philosophy, and it may help readers to better understand philosophy’s fate.

Product details

• Authors: Beaulieu, Alain Beaulieu, Alain Kazarian Beaulieu, Alain Sushytska Beaulieu
• Assisted by: Alain Beaulieu (Editor), Edward Kazarian (Editor), Julia Sushytska (Editor), Sushytska Julia (Editor), Villani Arnauld (Foreword)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2017
• EAN: 9781498508674
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-0867-4
• No. of pages: 266
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; France, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, 20th Century, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Western philosophy from c 1800, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -