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16663The Concept of the Simulacrum: Deleuze and the Overturning of PlatonismContinental Philosophy Review 38 (1-2): 89-123. 2005.This article examines Gilles Deleuze’s concept of the simulacrum, which Deleuze formulated in the context of his reading of Nietzsche’s project of “overturning Platonism.” The essential Platonic distinction, Deleuze argues, is more profound than the speculative distinction between model and copy, original and image. The deeper, practical distinction moves between two kinds of images or eidolon, for which the Platonic Idea is meant to provide a concrete criterion of selection “Copies” or icons (e…Read more
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8930Deleuze and Derrida, immanence and transcendence : two directions in recent French thoughtIn Paul Patton & John Protevi (eds.), Between Deleuze and Derrida, Continuum. pp. 46-66. 2003.This paper will attempt to assess the primary differences between what I take to be the two primary philosophical "traditions" in contemporary French philosophy, using Derrida (transcendence) and Deleuze (immanence) as exemplary representatives. The body of the paper will examine the use of these terms in three different areas of philosophy on which Derrida and Deleuze have both written: subjectivity, ontology, and epistemology. (1) In the field of subjectivity, the notion of the subject has bee…Read more
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8371Flow, Code and Stock: A Note on Deleuze's Political PhilosophyDeleuze and Guatarri Studies 5 (Suppl): 36-55. 2011.In Anti-Oedipus, Deleuze and Guattari claim that a general theory of society must be a generalised theory of flows. This is hardly a straightforward claim, and this paper attempts to examine the grounds for it. Why should socio-political theory be based on a theory of flows rather than, say, a theory of the social contract, or a theory of the State, or the questions of legitimation or revolution, or numerous other possible candidates? The concept of flow (and the related notions of code and stoc…Read more
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7659Mathematics and the Theory of Multiplicities: Badiou and Deleuze RevisitedSouthern Journal of Philosophy 41 (3): 411-449. 2003.
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6898Essays on DeleuzeEdinburgh University Press. 2012.Gilles Deleuze was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth-century, and Smith is widely recognized to be one of his most penetrating interpreters, as well as an important philosophical voice in his own right. Combining his most important pieces over the last fifteen years along with two new essays, this book is Smith 's definitive treatise on Deleuze. The essays are divided into four sections, which cover Deleuze's use of the history of philosophy, an overview of his philosophi…Read more
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2972Deleuze on Leibniz : Difference, Continuity, and the CalculusIn Stephen H. Daniel (ed.), Current continental theory and modern philosophy, Northwestern University Press. 2005.
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2769The Doctrine of Univocity: Deleuze's Ontology of ImmanenceIn Mary Bryden (ed.), Deleuze and Religion, Psychology Press. pp. 167-183. 2001.
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2417The Concept of Sense in Gilles Deleuze's Logic of SenseDeleuze and Guattari Studies 16 (1): 3-23. 2022.What is the concept of sense developed by Deleuze in his 1969 Logic of Sense? This paper attempts to answer this question analysing the three dimensions of language that Deleuze isolates: the primary order of noises and intensities ; the secondary order of sense ; and the tertiary organisation of propositions. What renders language possible is that which separates sounds from bodies and organises them into propositions, freeing them for the expressive function. Deleuze argues that it is the dime…Read more
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2203Two Concepts of Resistance: Foucault and DeleuzeIn Nicolae Morar, Thomas Nail & Daniel Warren Smith (eds.), Between Deleuze and Foucault, Edinburgh University. pp. 269-282. 2016.
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2133Deleuze’s Theory of Sensation: Overcoming the Kantian DualityIn Paul Patton (ed.), Deleuze: A Critical Reader, Blackwell. pp. 29-56. 1996.
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1990Gilles Deleuze and the Philosophy of Difference: Toward a Transcendental EmpiricismDissertation, The University of Chicago. 1997.The dissertation presents a systematic analysis of the work of the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze , using two interrelated themes as its guiding threads. The first is the concept of "difference," which is normally conceived as an empirical relation between two terms each of which have a prior identity of their own . In Deleuze, this primacy is inverted: identity persists, but it is now a secondary principle produced by a prior relation between differential elements. Difference here becomes a …Read more
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1949The Pure Form of Time and the Powers of the FalseTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 81 (1): 29-51. 2019.This paper explores the relation of the theory of time and the theory of truth in Deleuze’s philosophy. According to Deleuze, a mutation in our conception of time occurred with Kant. In antiquity, time had been subordinated to movement, it was the measure or the “number of movement” (Aristotle). In Kant, this relation is inverted: time is no longer subordinated to movement but assumes an independence and autonomy of its own for the first time. In Deleuze’s phrasing, time becomes the pure and emp…Read more
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1903Klossowski's Reading of Nietzsche: Impulses, Phantasms, Simulacra, StereotypesDiacritics 35 (1): 8-21. 2005.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:diacritics 35.1 (2005) 8-21MuseSearchJournalsThis JournalContents[Access article in PDF]Klossowski's Reading of Nietzsche Impulses, Phantasms, Simulacra, StereotypesDaniel W. SmithIn his writings on Nietzsche, Pierre Klossowski makes use of various concepts—such as intensities, phantasms, simulacra and stereotypes, resemblance and dissemblance, gregariousness and singularity—that have no place in Nietzsche's own oeuvre. These concept…Read more
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1884On the Nature of ConceptsParallax 18 (1): 62-73. 2012.In What is Philosophy?, Deleuze and Guattari define philosophy, famously, as an activity that consists in forming, inventing, and fabricating concepts.” But this definition of philosophy implies a somewhat singular “analytic of the concept,” to borrow Kant’s phrase. One of the problems it poses is the fact that concepts, from a Deleuzian perspective, have no identity but only a becoming. This paper examines the nature of this problem, arguing that the aim of Deleuze analytic is to introduce the …Read more
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1704Axiomatics and Problematics as Two Modes of Formalisation: Deleuze's Epistemology of Mathematics'In Simon B. Duffy (ed.), Virtual Mathematics: The Logic of Difference, Clinamen. pp. 145--168. 2006.
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1498The Pure and Empty Form of Time: Deleuze’s Theory of TemporalityIn Robert W. Luzecky & Daniel W. Smith (eds.), Deleuze and Time, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 45-72. 2023.Deleuze argued that a fundamental mutation in the concept of time occurred in Kant. In antiquity, the concept of time was subordinated to the concept of movement: time was a ‘measure’ of movement. In Kant, this relation is inverted: time is no longer subordinated to movement but assumes an autonomy of its own: time becomes "the pure and empty form" of everything that moves and changes. What is essential in the theory of time is not the distinction between objective ‘clock time’ (or physical time…Read more
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1277The Inverse Side of the Structure: Žižek on Deleuze on LacanCriticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts 46 (4): 635-650. 2004.
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1259Pierre Klossowski: From Theatrical Theology to Counter-UtopiaIn Nicolae Morar, Thomas Nail & Daniel W. Smith (eds.), Pierre Klossowski, Living Currency, Bloomsbury. pp. 1-40. 2017.
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1160Deleuze, Hegel, and the Post-Kantian TraditionPhilosophy Today 44 (Supplement): 119-131. 2000.
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1157Temporality and TruthDeleuze and Guatarri Studies 7 (3): 377-389. 2013.This paper examines the intersecting of the themes of temporality and truth in Deleuze's philosophy. For the ancients, truth was something eternal: what was true was true in all times and in all places. Temporality (coming to be and passing away) was the realm of the mutable, not the eternal. In the seventeenth century, change began to be seen in a positive light (progress, evolution, and so on), but this change was seen to be possible only because of the immutable laws of nature that govern cha…Read more
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1151Review of Gilles Deleuze, Two Regimes of Madness (review)Teaching Philosophy 30 (2): 237-241. 2007.
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1039From the Surface to the Depths: On the Transition from Logic of Sense to Anti-OedipusSymposium 10 (1): 135-153. 2006.
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1026Sense and Literality: Why There are No Metaphors in Deleuze’s PhilosophyIn Dorothea Olkowski & Eftichis Pirovolakis (eds.), Deleuze and Guattari’s Philosophy of Freedom: Freedom’s Refrains, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 44-67. 2019.
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1009Gilles Deleuze: An IntroductionIn Alan Schrift (ed.), History of Continental Philosophy, Vol. 6: Poststructuralism and Critical Theory's Second Generation, Acumen. pp. 91-110. 2010.
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