The Priority of Events: Deleuze's Logic of Sense

ISBN-13: 9780748643646 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 352 str.

Sean Bowden

Opis

An incisive analysis of Deleuze's philosophy of eventsSean Bowden shows how the Deleuzian event should be understood in terms of the broader metaphysical thesis that substances are ontologically 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.This exciting new reading of Deleuze focuses firmly on his approach to events. Bowden also examines and clarifies a number of Deleuze's most difficult philosophical concepts, including sense, problematic Ideas and intensive individuation, and engages with material by Lautman and Simondon that has not yet been translated into English.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: The Ontological Priority of Events in The Logic of Sense; 1. The Stoics - Events and Sense; 2. Leibniz - The Static Ontological and Logical Geneses; 3. Lautman and Simondon - Problematic Ideas and Singularities; 4. Structuralism - Structure and the Sense-Event; 5. Psychoanalysis - Dynamic Genesis; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.