The Priority of Events: Deleuze's Logic of Sense

by Sean Bowden

Overview

Sean Bowden shows you how the Deleuzian event should be understood in terms of the broader metaphysical thesis that fixed things or substances are always secondary with respect to events. He achieves this through a reconstruction of Deleuze’s relation to the history of thought from the Stoics through to Simondon, taking account of Leibniz, Lautman, structuralism and psychoanalysis along the way. Key features:• Focuses on Deleuze's concept of events and highlights the philosophical richness of The Logic of Sense• Engages with material by Lautman and Simondon that has not yet been translated into English• Examines and clarifies a number of Deleuze’s most difficult philosophical concepts, including sense, problematic Ideas and intensive individuation

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780748643646
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	08/16/2011
Series:	Plateaus - New Directions in Deleuze Studies
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Sean Bowden is an Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Deakin University, Australia. He is the author of The Priority of Events: Deleuze’s Logic of Sense (Edinburgh UniversityPress, 2011), and has published a number of articles and book chapters on Badiou, Deleuze and Simondon.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vi

Abbreviations vii

Introduction: The Ontological Priority of Events in The Logic of Sense 1

1 The Stoics - Events and Sense 15

2 Leibniz -The Static Ontological and Logical Geneses 56

3 Lautman and Simondon - Problematic Ideas and Singularities 95

4 Structuralism - Structure and the Sense-Event 152

5 Psychoanalysis - Dynamic Genesis 185

Conclusion 262

Bibliography 280

Index 290

Editorial Reviews

Not only does the book cover in impressive detail major facets of the book’s argumentation, it will provide the starting point for readers in the future who wish to engage with the staggering and elaborate, not to say baroque, metaphysical system presented in The Logic of Sense … Bowden’s excellent book deserves to be read and re-read: surely the greatest praise for any book, and praise rarely justly bestowed on a book of scholarship. It is certainly warranted here.

Parrhesia - Jon Roffe

A timely and invaluable resource for resuscitating interest in a work that, despite the current renaissance in Deleuze studies, continues to perplex and discomfort those who seek a way into its unique and hybrid structure and conceptions … By constructing a coherent argument, which frames a coherent route for us to follow, Bowden provides a welcome gift to both the novice reader and the experienced scholar.

Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews - David Scott

This is a wide-ranging and penetrating study of one of Deleuze's most important works. A superb book.

Daniel W. Smith

This book will readily take its place as one of the most important volumes in all of Deleuze Studies.

Nick Nesbitt