Affirming divergence : Deleuze's reading of Leibniz / Alex Tissandier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tissandier, Alex, author.

Series:

Plateaus.

Plateaus: new directions in Deleuze studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (v, 186 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2018.

Summary:

Alex Tissandier traces Leibniz's ambiguous status for Deleuze to explain two key ideas in Deleuzian philosophy: a concept of difference that is not reducible to a relation of contradiction and an account of the genesis of the world that does not presuppose the structure of representation.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Part I: Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza

1 Leibniz, Spinoza and the Anti-Cartesian Reaction

2 Leibniz and Expression

Part II: Difference and Repetition and Logic of Sense

3 Deleuze’s Critique of Representation

4 A Leibnizian World

Part III: The Fold

5 Material Folds and the Lower Level of the Baroque House

6 Spiritual Folds and the Upper Level of the Baroque House

Conclusion: The New Discord

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Apr 2021).

ISBN:

1-4744-5588-3

1-4744-4974-3

1-4744-1776-0

1-4744-1775-2

OCLC:

1306539515