Deleuze, Whitehead, Bergson : rhizomatic connections / edited by Keith Robinson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Robinson, Keith A. (Keith Alan), 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.

Deleuze, Gilles.

Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947.

Whitehead, Alfred North.

Bergson, Henri, 1859-1941.

Bergson, Henri.

Philosophy, Comparative.

Philosophy, European--20th century.

Philosophy, European.

Physical Description:

x, 237 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Summary:

Deleuze, Whitehead, Bergson: Rhizomatic Connections is the first collection of essays to explore the significant connections between the thought of Gilles Deleuze, Alfred North Whitehead and Henri Bergson. Although Deleuze acknowledged the influence of both Bergson and Whitehead on his own work, as yet there. With Contributions by established inter-national scholars from cultural studies, philosophy and theology, this is the only collection of essays exclusively dedicated to examining the articulation between their concepts, methods and modes of doing philosophy and how their thought engages other disciplines. Each essay examines core ideas and themes in the context of the contrasts and relations – the Rhizomatic Connections – between their shared methods and approaches. Deleuze, Whitehead, Bergson will make a significant impact upon and contribution to the scholarship on all three thinkers challenging many of the preconceptions, and ‘images of thought’, through which these philosophers are all too often read and interpreted.

Contents:

Introduction: Deleuze, Whitehead, Bergson – Rhizomatic Connections / Keith Robinson 1

1 Thinking with Deleuze and Whitehead: a Double Test / Isabelle Stengers 28

2 Language, Subjectivity and Individuality / Mick Halewood 45

3 Whitehead and Deleuze: Thinking the Event / Andre Cloots 61

4 The Emergence of a Speculative Empiricism: Whitehead Reading Bergson / Didier Debaise 77

5 Deleuze and Whitehead: the Concept of Reciprocal Determination / James Williams 89

6 Heterogenesis and the Problems of Metaphysics / Andrew Goffey 106

7 Deleuze, Whitehead and the Reversal of Platonism / Keith Robinson 128

8 Whitehead and Deleuze on Creation and Calculus / Jean-Claude Dumoncel 144

9 Gilles Deleuze, Deleuz’s Bergson and Bergson Himself / Peter Gunter 167

10 A Whiteheadian Chaosmos? / Tim Clark 181

11 ’O bitches of impossibility!’ Programmatic Dysfunction in the Chaosmos of Deleuze and Whitehead / Roland Faber 200.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230517721

0230517722

OCLC:

148905961