Deleuze and Philosophy: The Difference Engineer

by Keith Ansell-Pearson (Editor), Keith Ansell Pearson (Editor)

Overview

The work of Gilles Deleuze has had an impact far beyond philosophy. He is among Foucault and Derrida as one of the most cited of all contemporary French thinkers. Never a student 'of' philosophy, Deleuze was always philosophical and many influential poststructuralist and postmodernist texts can be traced to his celebrated resurrection of Nietzsche against Hegel in his Nietzsche and Philosophy, from which this collection draws its title.
This searching new collection considers Deleuze's relation to the philosophical tradition and beyond to the future of philosophy, science and technology. In addition to considering Deleuze's imaginative readings of classic figures such as Spinoza and Kant, the essays also point to the meaning of Deleuze on 'monstrous' and machinic thinking, on philosophy and engineering, on philosophy and biology, on modern painting and literature.
Deleuze and Philosophy continues the spirit of experimentation and invention that features in Deleuze's work and will appeal to those studying across philosophy, social theory, literature and cultural studies who themselves are seeking new paradigms of thought.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415142694
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/12/1997
Series:	Warwick Studies in European Philosophy
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ansell-Pearson, Keith; Pearson, Keith Ansell

Table of Contents

1. Deleuze Outside/Outside Deleuze: On the Difference Engineer Keith Ansell Pearson Philosophy 2. Deleuze, Kant, and Indifference Diane Beddoes 3. Some Reflections on Deleuze's Spinoza: Composition and Agency Aurelia Armstrong 4. Deleuze and Structuralism: Towards a Geometry of Sufficient Reason Tim Clark 5. Tumbling Dice: Gilles Deleuze and the Economy of Repetition Daniel W. Conway Minor Politics/Minor Literature 6. 'At the Mountains of Madness': the Demonology of the New Earth and the Politics of Becoming Iain Hamilton Grant 7. Postmodernity as a Spectre of the Future: the Force of Capital and the Unmasking of Difference Judy Purdom 8. Palimpsest: Toward a Minor Literature in Monstrosity Deepak Narang Sawhney Vital Science/Viral Life 9. The Topology of Selection: The Limits of Deleuze's Biophilosophy Howard Caygill 10. Contagium vivum philosophia: Schizophrenic philosophy, Viral Empiricism, and Deleuze Robert O'Toole 11. Viroid Life: On Machines, Technics, and Evolution Keith Ansell Pearson 12. Machinic Thinking Alistair Welchman Art and Wildstyle 13. For Catastrope: Deleuze and Turner James Williams 14. Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Wildstyle in Full Effect Robin MacKay Notes on Contributors