Gilles Deleuze and the Philosophy of Sense : The Role and Development of the Concept of Sense in Deleuze's Early Thought.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Widder, Nathan.

Series:

SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.

Meaning (Philosophy).

Idéologues (French philosophers).

Local Subjects:

Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (344 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, 2026.

Summary:

Landmark study providing a systematic book-by-book and thinker-by-thinker account of the development Deleuze's philosophy up to and including The Logic of Sense.Gilles Deleuze and the Philosophy of Sense is a landmark study that offers a detailed and systematic exposition of Deleuze's early philosophy that frames it as a project of constructing a.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

Part I

1 Toward an Ontology of Sense

2 Hegelian Sense

Sense and Contradiction

Logos and History

An Ontology of Difference and not Contradiction

3 Hume: Relations Must Be External to Terms

Empiricism and the Subject

4 Bergson: Difference Must Be Internal Difference

Riemannian Multiplicities

Reading Bergson through Riemann

5 Nietzsche: Sense and Force

Sense, Value, and a Concrete Synthesis of Forces

Quantity, Quality, and the Will to Power

The Subject and the Eternal Return

6 Spinoza and Univocal Expression

Univocity versus Analogy

Formal Distinction and Individuation

Spinoza's Adaptations of Univocity and Formal Distinction

Toward a Univocity of Difference

Interlude: Works on Proust and Sacher-Masoch

Proust: Signs and Their Incarnation

Saussure and the Sign

Proustian Signs

Against Bergson

Sadism, Masochism, and the Death Instinct

The Pleasure Principle and the Death Instinct

Eros, Thanatos, and Transcendental Reflection

Perverted Kantianisms

Irony and Humor

Part II

7 Difference and Repetition

8 Difference in Itself

9 Repetition for Itself

The First Synthesis of Habit

The Second Synthesis of the Pure Past

The Third Synthesis of the Eternal Return

Systems of Simulacra and the Production of Difference

10 Thought, Ideas, and the Actualization of the Virtual

Thought, Encounter, and the Transcendent Exercise of the Faculties

Virtual Ideas and Their Actualization

11 Dramatization, Individuation, and the Incarnation of Intensity

The Dramatization of Spatio-Temporal Dynamisms

Intensity and Intensive Quantity

Incarnation and Individuation

The Other-Structure and De-Differenciation

12 From the Depths to the Surface

Schema and Dynamisms.

Eschewing the Classical Height and the Archaic Depth

Part III

13 The Logic of Sense

14 Pure Becoming and Incorporeal Surfaces: Reversing Platonism

Plato and the Problem of Pure Becoming

The Stoic Reversal of Platonism

15 Sense and the Proposition: Paradoxes, Structure, and Static Genesis

The Paradoxes of the Proposition

Sense as a Surface Structure

The Static Genesis of Sense

16 Counter-Effectuation, Perversion, and the Ethics of the Event

The Ideal Game and the Affirmation of Chance

The Event and the Silent Crack

Ethics, Perversion, and the World without Others

17 From the Depth of Bodies to the Surface of Thought: Dynamic Genesis

Melanie Klein and Pre-Oedipal Development

Dynamic Genesis in a World of Simulacra

Phantasm and Intensification

18 From The Logic of Sense to Anti-Oedipus

Artaud and Carroll

After The Logic of Sense: Entering the Crack of Thought

Epilogue: From Structure to Machine

How to Recognize Structuralism

Machinic Intensity

Sense and Machine

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

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ISBN:

979-88-558-0791-2

OCLC:

1591603954