Continuity and event in Leibniz and Deleuze : poetics of the fold / Hamed Movahedi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Movahedi, Hamed, author.

Series:

Plateaus

Plateaus - new directions in Deleuze studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.

Deleuze, Gilles.

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm.

Continuity.

Events (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2026]

Summary:

A multi-layered analysis of continuity, fold, and event and their heteropoietic character in Deleuze's metaphysics of genesis Conceptualises a Deleuzian-Leibnizian notion of continuity in relation to event and reconstructs Deleuze's metaphysics of genesisProvides a comparative interpretation of The Fold, Difference and Repetition, and Logic of Sense in terms of continuityTraces an aesthetic dimension in Deleuze's metaphysics by drawing on his notion of dramatization and proposing the parallel concept of poeticizationHamed Movahedi reconstructs a Deleuzian concept of continuity and event through comparative readings of The Fold, Difference and Repetition and Logic of Sense. His analysis of The Fold in dialogue with Leibniz opens a new conceptual space for continuity, one that entails both irreducible heterogeneity and ontological inseparability. This concept, which challenges conventional notions of continuity and discontinuity, discloses its implicit yet decisive presence in Deleuze's philosophy of genesis in Difference and Repetition and the genesis of language in Logic of Sense. Deleuze's story of genesis, preoccupied with the conditions of formation across various fields, is recounted in terms of continuity, which turns out to be a poetics, a prelude to art and politics.

Contents:

Introduction : problem of continuity

Proliferation of folds : a baroque image

A metaphysical ten(or)sion : from inflection to inclusion

Proliferation of events : affirmation of bifurcation and divergent continuity

Constellation of continuity as logic : Leibniz, Peirce, Blanchot

Ideas and divergent continuity

Torsional continuity : dramatization and poeticization of ideas

Intensive continuity

Logic of sense and continuity

Nonsense, event, continuity

Conclusion : heteropoietic continuity.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed February 16, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: Movahedi, Hamed. Continuity and event in Leibniz and Deleuze

ISBN:

9781399550680

1399550675

9781399550673

1399550683

OCLC:

1553844216

Publisher Number:

CIPO000309599

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license