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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 philosophy of sense. Through a detailed book-by-book and thinker-by-thinker analysis, Nathan Widder demonstrates how the development of this philosophy of sense underpins the concepts and theses that define Deleuze's thought in this period, along with his approach to questions of philosophical method and system, to the history of philosophy, and to the structuralism and psychoanalysis of his day. This transformative work also challenges the dominant interpretations of Deleuze by showing how The Logic of Sense, rather than Difference and Repetition, is really the early Deleuze's magnum opus. But this study not only breaks with dominant orthodoxies; it also revolutionizes the scholarship by tracing concretely the threads that give Deleuze's wide-ranging thought its coherence and clarity. For readers of all levels who are looking to unlock Deleuze's philosophy in this way, this book provides the keys.
"Marking the culmination of several decades of research by a foremost scholar of Deleuze, this book advances a bold thesis: that Deleuze's pre-Guattari philosophy is a systematic philosophy of sense. There is so much to learn from this book, for both new readers of Deleuze and seasoned experts." — Craig Lundy, London Metropolitan University
Nathan Widder is Professor of Political Theory at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of Geneaologies of Difference, Reflections on Time and Politics, and Political Theory After Deleuze.
Preface and Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I
1. Toward an Ontology of Sense
2. Hegelian Sense
3. Hume: Relations Must Be External to Terms
4. Bergson: Difference Must Be Internal Difference
5. Nietzsche: Sense and Force
6. Spinoza and Univocal Expression
Interlude: Works on Proust and Sacher-Masoch
Part II
7. Difference and Repetition
8. Difference in Itself
9. Repetition for Itself
10. Thought, Ideas, and the Actualization of the Virtual
11. Dramatization, Individuation, and the Incarnation of Intensity
12. From the Depths to the Surface
Part III
13. The Logic of Sense
14. Pure Becoming and Incorporeal Surfaces: Reversing Platonism
15. Sense and the Proposition: Paradoxes, Structure, and Static Genesis
16. Counter-Effectuation, Perversion, and the Ethics of the Event
17. From the Depth of Bodies to the Surface of Thought: Dynamic Genesis
18. From The Logic of Sense to Anti-Oedipus
Epilogue: From Structure to Machine
Notes
Bibliography
Index