Deleuze and Guattari's Philosophy of History constructs, problematizes and defends a Deleuzian philosophy of history. Drawing on Deleuze's philosophy of time, it identifies key ideas and suggestions related to the philosophy of history from Deleuze and Guattari's major writings - including the seminal contemporary texts Anti-Oedipus, A Thousand Plateaux, Difference and Repetiton and The Logic of Sense.

The book covers the following themes: the role of dates in historical chronology; historical causality; historical origins; the character of historical events; and the...

Throughoriginal speculations on the surprisingly complementary concepts ofsimultaneity and delay, and new interpretations of the great philosophers oftime, this book proposes an innovative theory of staggered time.

Inthe early 20th Century, Bergson and Husserl (following Einstein)made Simultaneity--what it means for events to occur at the same time--a centralmotif in philosophy.In the late 20thCentury, Derrida and Deleuze instead emphasized Delay--events staggered overdistant times.This struggle betweenconvergent and staggered time also plays out in 20th...

Through original speculations on the surprisingly complementary concepts of simultaneity and delay, and new interpretations of the great philosophers of time, this book proposes an innovative theory of staggered time.

In the early 20th Century, Bergson and Husserl (following Einstein) made Simultaneity-what it means for events to occur at the same time-a central motif in philosophy. In the late 20th Century, Derrida and Deleuze instead emphasized Delay-events staggered over distant times. This struggle between convergent and staggered time also plays out in 20th Century aesthetics...