Ontology in Heidegger and Deleuze : a comparative analysis / Gavin Rae.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rae, Gavin, 1982-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ontology.

Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.

Heidegger, Martin.

Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.

Deleuze, Gilles.

Physical Description:

xvii, 226 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke : Palgrave MacMillan, 2014.

Summary:

This groundbreaking book engages with the relationship between ontology, metaphysics, and epistemology in Heidegger and Deleuze. Showing that the latter are rooted in their respective ontologies not only provides a clear, detailed, and holistic outline of all three, but also reveals that Heidegger and Deleuze are highly critical of thinking that associates being with identity. While they both seek to overcome this association by affirming being as becoming, they differ in terms of what this becoming entails with Deleuze's onto-genetic account of being's rhizomic-becoming going beyond Heidegger's temporal account. However, while Deleuze attempts to think as and from difference, the relationship between identity and difference is explored to offer a tri-partite account of identity that shows that, despite his claims to the contrary, Deleuze's ontological categories continue to depend on a form of the identity he aims to overcome.

Contents:

1 Introduction 1

Heidegger and Deleuze 2

The argument developed S

Structure of the book 12

2 Rethinking the Human: Heidegger, Fundamental Ontology, and Humanism 16

In search of being 17

Metaphysical humanism 27

Human ek-sistence 31

The importance of being 38

3 Being and Technology: Heidegger on the Overcoming of Metaphysics 43

Being, metaphysics, and anthropocentrism 47

Technology 51

Overcoming the enframing of modern technology 59

The destruction of metaphysics 62

4 Philosophy as World-view: Metaphysics and the Thinking of Being 69

The being of philosophy 70

The questioning of philosophy 72

Revealing philosophy by doing philosophy 75

Philosophy as world-view 78

5 Transforming Thought: Heidegger and Meditative Thinking 87

Overcoming philosophy through thinking 88

Meditative thinking and being 91

Meditative thinking and the ab-ground of being 96

The movement to meditative thinking 102

Willing the overcoming of metaphysical thinking 108

6 Deleuze on Being as Becoming: Multiplicity, Difference, and Virtuality 116

Being as becoming 117

Becoming as multiplicity 125

Difference and negation 130

Virtuality, actuality, possibility, and reality 137

7 Deleuze and the Structural Conditions of Philosophy 145

The image of thought 146

Philosophy as concept-creation 152

The plane of immanence 163

Conceptual personae 172

8 Deleuze on the Purpose and Place of Philosophy 174

The problems of philosophy 174

Geo-philosophy 180

The place of philosophy in relation to science and art 187

Thinking the relationship between the disciplines 191

9 Identity in Deleuze's Differential Ontology 200

Reconciling the irreconcilable 201

Different senses of Identity 206

Examples of identity in Deleuze's differential ontology 209

Concluding remarks 212.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-220) and index.

ISBN:

9781137404558

1137404558

OCLC:

869726467