•  81
    Deleuze's Rethinking of the Notion of Sense
    Deleuze and Guatarri Studies 7 (1): 1-25. 2013.
    Drawing on Deleuze's early works of the 1960s, this article investigates the ways in which Deleuze challenges our traditional linguistic notion of sense and notion of truth. Using Frege's account of sense and truth, this article presents our common understanding of sense and truth as two separate dimensions of the proposition where sense subsists only in a formal relation to the other. It then goes on to examine the Kantian account, which makes sense the superior transcendental condition of poss…Read more
  •  70
    Deleuze's Third Synthesis of Time
    Deleuze and Guatarri Studies 7 (2): 194-216. 2013.
    Deleuze's theory of time set out in Difference and Repetition is a complex structure of three different syntheses of time – the passive synthesis of the living present, the passive synthesis of the pure past and the static synthesis of the future. This article focuses on Deleuze's third synthesis of time, which seems to be the most obscure part of his tripartite theory, as Deleuze mixes different theoretical concepts drawn from philosophy, Greek drama theory and mathematics. Of central importanc…Read more
  •  70
    In his main doctoral thesis, Individuation in the Light of the Notions of Form and Information, Simondon offers a genetic theory of individuation that takes into account the individuation of physical, biological, psychic and social systems. While he takes his main paradigm for the explanation of individuating processes from physical science and transfers the notions derived from it to other domains, he is careful not to reduce the regime of the living to the non-living. The notion of the problem…Read more
  •  30
    Intensity and the Missing Virtual: Deleuze's Reading of Spinoza
    Deleuze and Guatarri Studies 11 (2): 156-173. 2017.
    Deleuze's interpretation of Spinozan philosophy is intrinsically related to the concept of intensity. Attributes are defined as intensive qualities, modal essences as intensive quantities or degrees of power; the life of affects corresponds to continuous variations in intensity. This essay will show why Deleuze needs the concept of intensity for his reading of Spinozan philosophy as a philosophy of expressive immanence. It will also discuss the problems that spring from this reading: in what way…Read more
  •  23
    The Problem of Method: Deleuze and Simondon
    Deleuze and Guattari Studies 14 (1): 87-108. 2020.
    This paper examines the relationship between Simondon's theory of individuation and Deleuze's transcendental empiricism. Deleuze credits Simondon with inventing a new conception of the transcendental – a claim that might have taken Simondon by surprise, as this term does not play any significant role in his oeuvre. The aim of this paper is to show both that Simondon's philosophy contributed to the construction of Deleuze's transcendental philosophy in an essential way and that the nature of his …Read more
  •  18
    Immanence, transindividuality and the free multitude
    Philosophy and Social Criticism 44 (8): 865-887. 2018.
    Since the late 1960s there has been a resurgence of interest in Spinozism in France: Gilles Deleuze was among the first who gave life to a ‘new Spinoza’ with his seminal book Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza. While Deleuze was primarily interested in Spinoza’s ontology and ethics, the contemporary French philosopher Étienne Balibar focuses on the political writings. Despite their common fascination for Spinoza’s relational definition of the individual, both thinkers have drawn very different…Read more
  •  14
    At the Edges of Thought: Deleuze and Post-Kantian Philosophy (edited book)
    with Craig Lundy
    Edinburgh University Press. 2015.
    This collection situates Deleuze's work and several of his most important concepts in the context of his post-Kantian predecessors, further illuminating both the breadth of his philosophical heritage and the manner in which he moves beyond it. Through a series of studies by leading scholars in the field, At the Edges of Thought sheds new light on key philosophical encounters with thinkers such as Maimon, Kleist, Hölderlin, Fichte, Hegel, Schopenhauer and Feuerbach in Deleuze's texts. Readers are…Read more
  •  13
    Disparate Politics: Balibar and Simondon
    Australasian Philosophical Review 2 (1): 47-53. 2018.
    At the beginning of his essay ‘Philosophies of the Transindividual: Spinoza, Marx, Freud’, Balibar [2018] hints at some reasons why he will not be dealing with Simondon, despite agreeing with the latter’s program of going beyond ‘the metaphysics of the subject and of substance’ and towards an ‘ontology of relations’. In what follows I would like to outline Simondon’s concept of transindividuality and spell out more clearly why Balibar cannot follow Simondon’s trajectory. At the same time, I sugg…Read more
  •  9
    Analyses Deleuze's notion of transcendental and genetic Ideas as conditions of creative thought. From his early work in 'Nietzsche and Philosophy' to 'Difference and Repetition', Deleuze develops a unique notion of transcendental philosophy. It comprises a radical critique of the illusions of representation and a genetic model of thought.Engaging with questions of representation, Ideas and the transcendental, Daniela Voss offers a sophisticated treatment of the Kantian aspects of Deleuze's thoug…Read more
  •  2
    Reading Maimon
    In Tilottama Rajan & Daniel Whistler (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Poststructuralism, Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 37-58. 2023.
    This chapter first develops Maimon’s solution to the Kantian problem of the relation between sensibility and understanding, analyzing the central notion of differentials. Second, it traces the impact of this notion on Deleuze’s transcendental empiricism and examines what connects and separates Maimon’s and Deleuze’s views.
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    Maimon and Deleuze
    Parrhesia 11 62-74. 2011.
  • Index
    with Craig Lundy
    In Craig Lundy & Daniela Voss (eds.), At the Edges of Thought: Deleuze and Post-Kantian Philosophy, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 330-342. 2015.