The Deleuze-Lucretius encounter / Ryan J. Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Ryan J., author.

Series:

Plateaus.

Plateaus. New directions in Deleuze studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995--Criticism and interpretation.

Deleuze, Gilles.

Lucretius Carus, Titus--Criticism and interpretation.

Lucretius Carus, Titus.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 275 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Explores how Deleuze's thought was shaped by Lucretian atomism - a formative but often-ignored influence from ancient philosophy.<p>More than any other 20th-century philosopher, Deleuze considers himself an apprentice to the history of philosophy. But scholarship has ignored one of the more formative influences on Deleuze: Lucretian atomism. Deleuze's encounter with Lucretius sparked a way of thinking that resonates throughout all his writings: from immanent ontology to affirmative ethics, from dynamic materialism to the generation of thought itself. Filling a significant gap in Deleuze Studies, Ryan J. Johnson tells the story of the Deleuze-Lucretius encounter that begins and ends with a powerful claim: Lucretian atomism produced Deleuzianism.</p>

Contents:

Deleuze and the adventure of ideas

The atomic idea

Differentiation, individuation, dramatisation and actualisation

The encounter in sense and thought

Ethics in the garden of epicurus

Conclusion: the encounter.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 May 2017).

ISBN:

1-4744-1655-1

1-4744-3044-9

1-4744-1654-3

OCLC:

1301547199