Against Continuity: Gilles Deleuze's Speculative Realism

ISBN-13: 9781474447782 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 328 str.

Arjen (Assistant Professor in the Center for Contemporary Eu

Opis

Against Continuity' is the first book to demonstrate that the beating heart of Gilles Deleuze s philosophy is a systematic ontology of irreducible, singular entities. This requires a radical break with decades of Deleuzian orthodoxy, according to which Deleuze s metaphysics revolves around the dissolution of discrete entities into a continuous world of flows and events

Spis treści

Introduction: The Machine Thesis; i: All Entities are Machines; ii: A Speculative Philosophy; iii: Method and Structure; 1. Deleuze and Ontology; i: Much Ado about Ontology; ii: To the Things Themselves; iii: A Fourfold and Three Syntheses; First Intermezzo - Levi Bryant and Twofold Machines; 2. The Externality Thesis; i: Relations are External to Terms; ii: The Experience of Externality; iii: Speculative Arguments for Externality; 3. Critiques of Internalism; i: Difference and Repetition; ii: Depth and Height; iii: The Image of Thought; 4. The Machinic Body; i: No Being without a Body; ii: All Bodies are Problematic; Second Intermezzo - Maurizio Ferraris and Unamendable Objects; 5. Relations between Machines; i: The Connective Synthesis; ii: Sense at the Surface; iii: Actuality is a Twofold; Third Intermezzo - Markus Gabriel and Fields of Sense; 6. Inside the Machines; i: The Powers that Be; ii: Essence is a Twofold; Fourth Intermezzo - Manuel DeLanda and Assemblage Theory; 7. Machines and Change; i: The Disjunctive Synthesis; Fifth Intermezzo - Graham Harman and Fourfold Objects; ii: The Notion of Becoming; iii: Assemblages and Intensities; 8. The Construction of Machines; i: The Conjunctive Synthesis; Sixth Intermezzo - Tristan Garcia and Formal Things; ii: Rhizomes and Hierarchies; 9. Machine Ontology and Thought; i: Self and World; Seventh Intermezzo - Bruno Latour and Irreducible Actants; ii: Platonism and Paralogisms; iii: A Transcendental Empiricism; Conclusion: Ontology and Discontinuity; Bibliography; Names Index; General Index.