Deleuze and History

by Jeffrey A. Bell (Editor), Claire Colebrook (Editor)

Overview

Despite the fact that time, evolution, becoming and genealogy are central concepts in Deleuze's work there has been no sustained study of his philosophy in relation to the question of history. This book aims to open up Deleuze's relevance to those working in history, the history of ideas, science studies, evolutionary psychology, history of philosophy and interdisciplinary projects inflected by historical problems. The essays in this volume (all by internationally recognised Deleuze scholars) cover all aspects of Deleuze's philosophy and its relation to history, ranging from the application of Deleuze's philosophy to historical method, Deleuze's own use of the history of philosophy, his interpretations of other historical thinkers (such as Hume and Nietzsche) and the complex theories of time and evolution in his work. Contributors include: Paul Patton, Manuel DeLanda, John Protevi, Ian Buchanan, Tim Flanagan, James Williams, Eve Bischoff, Jay Lampert.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780748636099
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	03/12/2009
Series:	Deleuze Connections
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Jeffrey A. Bell is Professor of Philosophy at Southeastern Louisiana University. He has recently been a Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor in Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London, during which time much of this book was written. He is the author of numerous books and articles on Deleuze and Deleuze and Guattari, including Deleuze and Guattari's What is Philosophy?: A Critical Introduction and Guide (Edinburgh UniversityPress, 2016), Deleuze’s Hume (Edinburgh UniversityPress, 2008), Philosophy at the Edge of Chaos (University of Toronto Press, 2006) and The Problem of Difference: Phenomenology and Poststructuralism (University of Toronto Press, 1998). Bell is co-editor with Paul Livingston and Andrew Cutrofello of Beyond the Analytic–Continental Divide: Pluralist Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century (Routledge, 2015) and with Claire Colebrook of Deleuze and History (Edinburgh UniversityPress, 2009).

Professor of English at Penn State University. She is the author of New Literary Histories (1997), Gilles Deleuze (2002), Understanding Deleuze (2002), Irony in the Work of Philosophy (2002), Gender (2003) and Irony: The New Critical Idiom (2003) and the co-editor of Deleuze and Feminist Theory (1999).

Table of Contents

Introduction, Claire Colebrook; 1. Events, Becoming and History, Paul Patton; 2. Of the Rise and Progress of Philosophical Concepts, Deleuze's Humean Historiography, Jeff Bell; 3. Theory of Delay in Balibar, Freud, and Deleuze, Décalage, Nachträglichkeit, Retard, Jay Lampert; 4. Geohistory and hydro-bio-politics, John Protevi; 5. The Thought of History in Benjamin & Deleuze, Tim Flanagan; 6. The Cannibal Within, White Men and the Embodiment of Evolutionary Time, Eve Bischoff; 7. Ageing, Perpetual Perishing and the Event as Pure Novelty, Péguy, Whitehead and Deleuze on Time and History, James Williams; 8. Cinema, chronos/cronos, becoming an accomplice to the impasse of history, David Deamer; 9. Deleuze's Untimely, Uses and Abuses in the Appropriation of Nietzsche, Craig Lundy; 10. Is Anti-Oedipus a May '68 book?, Ian Buchanan; 11. Molar Entities and Molecular Populations in Human History, Manuel DeLanda; Notes on Contributors; Index.