Deleuze's Philosophical Lineage

Annotation The philosophy of Gilles Deleuze is increasingly gaining the prestige that its astonishing inventiveness calls for in the Anglo-American theoretical context. His wide-ranging works on the history of philosophy, cinema, painting, literature and politics are being taken up and put to work across disciplinary divides and in interesting and surprising ways. However, the backbone of Deleuze's philosophy - the many and varied sources from which he draws the material for his conceptual innovation - has until now remained relatively obscure and unexplored. This book takes as its goal the examination of this rich theoretical background. Presenting essays by a range of the world's foremost Deleuze scholars, and a number of up and coming theorists of his work, the book is composed of in-depth analyses of the key figures in Deleuze's lineage whose significance - as a result of either their obscurity or the complexity of their place in the Deleuzean text - has not previously been well understood. This work will prove indispensable to students and scholars seeking to understand the context from which Deleuze's ideas emerge. Included are essays on Deleuze's relationship to figures as varied as Marx, Simondon, Wronski, Hegel, Hume, Maimon, Ruyer, Kant, Heidegger, Husserl, Reimann, Leibniz, Bergson and Freud The philosophy of Gilles Deleuze is increasingly gaining the prestige that its astonishing inventiveness calls for in the Anglo-American theoretical context. His wide-ranging works on the history of philosophy, cinema, painting, literature and politics are being taken up and put to work across disciplinary divides and in interesting and surprising ways. However, the backbone of Deleuze's philosophy - the many and varied sources from which he draws the material for his conceptual innovation - has until now remained relatively obscure and unexplored.

This book takes as its goal the examination of this rich theoretical background. Presenting essays by a range of the world's foremost Deleuze scholars, and a number of up and coming theorists of his work, the book is composed of in-depth analyses of the key figures in Deleuze's lineage whose significance - as a result of either their obscurity or the complexity of their place in the Deleuzean text - has not previously been well understood.

This work will prove indispensable to students and scholars seeking to understand the context from which Deleuze's ideas emerge.

Included are essays on Deleuze's relationship to figures as varied as Marx, Simondon, Wronski, Hegel, Hume, Maimon, Ruyer, Kant, Heidegger, Husserl, Reimann, Leibniz, Bergson and Freud. Gilles Deleuze's work on the history of philosophy, cinema, painting, literature, and politics has crossed the disciplinary divide in interesting and surprising ways. Pouring over the many and varied sources from which Deleuze framed his innovative concepts, this collection identifies the thinker's most important influences, the significance of which, either as a result of their obscurity or the complexity of their place in the Deleuzean text, has yet to be deeply understood. This volume is indispensable for decoding the context from which Deleuze's ideas emerge and includes essays on the critic's relationship to Marx, Simondon, Lacan, Hegel, Hume, Maimon, Ruyer, Kant, Heidegger, Husserl, Reimann, Leibniz, Bergson, and Freud. Copyright 3 Contents 4 Acknowledgements 6 List of Abbreviations 7 Introduction: Into the Labyrinth 8 1 Plato 15 2 John Duns Scotus 34 3 G. W. F. Leibniz 51 4 David Hume 74 5 Immanuel Kant 94 6 Solomon Maimon 111 7 G. W. F. Hegel 137 8 Karl Marx 154 9 Hoëne Wronski and Francis Warrain 174 10 Bernhard Riemann 197 11 Gabriel Tar 216 12 Sigmund Freud 226 13 Henri Bergson 244 14 Edmund Husserl 268 15 A. N. Whitehead 289 16 Raymond Ruyer 307 17 Martin Heidegger 328 18 Pierre Klossowski 346 19 Albert Lautman 363 20 Gilbert Simondon 387 Bibliography 406 Notes on Contributors 424 Index 428 Presenting essays by a range of Deleuze scholars and theorists of his work, this book is composed of in-depth analyses of the key figures in Deleuze's lineage, whose significance - as a result of either their obscurity or the complexity of their place in the Deleuzean text - has not previously been well understood. Included are essays on Deleuze's relationship with figures as varied as Marx, Simondon, Wronski, Hegel, Hume, Maimon, Ruyer, Kant, Heidegger, Husserl, Reimann, Leibniz, Bergson, and Freud This book aims to challenge the current orthodoxy concerning how Deleuze's work is viewed, whilst also bringing illumination to bear on areas of his work that too often seem obscure, even impenetrable.