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338Kierkegaard and Deleuze: Anxiety, Possibility and a World without OthersIn Erin Plunkett (ed.), Kierkegaard and Possibility, Bloomsbury Press. pp. 99-121. 2023.
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148Hamlet and the Time of ActionIn Roman Altshuler Michael J. Sigrist (ed.), Time and the Philosophy of Action, Routledge. pp. 272-283. 2015.In this chapter I want to explore a comment made by the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze that presents a connection between two figures: Kant and Hamlet.1 In his most important early work, Difference and Repetition, Deleuze writes, “the Northern Prince says ‘time is out of joint’. Can it be that the Northern philosopher says the same thing?” (Deleuze 2004, 111). In this chapter, I want to look at the question of drama and see how different conceptions of drama allow us to understand action, or …Read more
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1000The Smooth and the StriatedIn Henry Somers-Hall, James Williams & Jeffrey Bell (eds.), A Thousand Plateaus and Philosophy, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 242-259. 2018.In the fourteenth plateau of A Thousand Plateaus, Deleuze and Guattari develop a dichotomy between two kinds of space – the smooth and the striated. What I want to focus on in this chapter is the status of these two conceptions of space. As Deleuze and Guattari note, these two forms of space are only discovered in a mixed form, yet are capable of being analysed de jure through their separation. In this sense, the plateau on the smooth and striated can be seen as something like a transcendental d…Read more
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235Deleuze's Use of Kant's Argument from Incongruent CounterpartsSouthern Journal of Philosophy 51 (3): 345-366. 2013.The aim of this paper is to explore Deleuze's use of Kant's argument from incongruent counterparts, which Kant uses to show the existence of what he calls an “internal difference” within things. I want to explore how Deleuze draws out an important distinction between the concept and the Idea, and provides an incisive account of his relationship to both the Kantian and Leibnizian projects. First, I look at Kant's use of the argument to provide a refutation of the Leibnizian account of space, befo…Read more
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48The Cambridge companion to Deleuze (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2012.Machine generated contents note: Introduction Henry Somers-Hall; 1. Deleuze and the history of philosophy Daniel W. Smith; 2. Difference and repetition James Williams; 3. The Deleuzian reversal of Platonism Miguel Beistegui; 4. Deleuze and Kant Beth Lord; 5. Phenomenology and metaphysics, and chaos: on the fragility of the event in Deleuze Leonard Lawlor; 6. Deleuze and structuralism François Dosse; 7. Deleuze and Guattari: Guattareuze and Co. Gary Genosko; 8. Nomadic ethics Rosi Braidotti; 9. D…Read more
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23A Thousand Plateaus and Philosophy (edited book)Edinburgh University Press. 2018."This volume brings together a team of international specialists on Deleuze and Guattari to provide in-depth critical studies of each plateau of their major work, A Thousand Plateaus. It combines an overview of the text with deep scholarship and brings a renewed focus on the philosophical significance of their project.'A Thousand Plateaus' represents a whole new way of doing philosophy. This collection supports the critical reception of Deleuze and Guattari's text as one of the most important an…Read more
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212Binding and axiomatics: Deleuze and Guattari’s transcendental account of capitalismContinental Philosophy Review 56 (4): 619-638. 2023.The aim of this paper is to develop a consistent reading of Deleuze and Guattari’s account of capitalism by taking seriously their use of Kant’s philosophy in formulating it. In Sect. 1, I will set out the two different roots of the term axiomatic in Deleuze and Guattari’s thought. The first of these is the axiomatic approach to formalising fields of mathematics, and the second the Kantian account of the indeterminate relationship between the transcendental unity of apperception and the transcen…Read more
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40412. Feuerbach and the Image of ThoughtIn Craig Lundy & Daniela Voss (eds.), At the Edges of Thought: Deleuze and Post-Kantian Philosophy, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 253-271. 2015.‘The Image of Thought’ could be considered to be the most important piece of writing in the entire Deleuzian corpus. This is the chapter of Difference and Repetition that several decades later, Deleuze claims is the ‘most necessary and the most concrete’ (Deleuze 1994: xvii) section of the book, and the one that provides a basis for his later work with Guattari. Here, Deleuze engages with two basic issues. First, he separates out his conception of thinking, and with it, philosophy, from prior ph…Read more
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313Merleau‐Ponty’s Reading of Kant’s Transcendental IdealismSouthern Journal of Philosophy 57 (1): 103-131. 2019.The aim of this paper is to explore Merleau-Ponty’s ambivalent relationship with Kant’s transcendental philosophy. I begin by looking at several points of convergence between Kant and Merleau-Ponty, focusing on the affinities between Kant’s account of transcendental realism and Merleau-Ponty’s notion of objective thought. I then show how Merleau-Ponty’s analysis of Kant’s paradox of asymmetrical objects points to a parallel in Kant’s thought to Merleau-Ponty’s thesis of the primacy of perception…Read more
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279The unity of consciousness in Sartre’s early thought: reading The Transcendence of the Ego_ with _The ImaginaryBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 31 (6): 1212-1233. 2023.The aim of this paper is to provide an interpretation for Sartre’s account of the unity of consciousness in The Transcendence of the Ego. I will argue that it is only once The Transcendence of the Ego is read alongside other texts written around the same time, such as The Imaginary, that we can understand how Sartre believes it is possible for consciousness to be unified without an I. I begin by setting out the Kantian context that Sartre develops for his views, before looking at Sartre’s argume…Read more
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283Chapter 6 Kant, Merleau-Ponty, Deleuze and the Constitution of ExperienceIn Robert W. Luzecky & Daniel W. Smith (eds.), Deleuze and Time, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 116-135. 2023.
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17Judgement and sense in modern French philosophyCambridge University Press. 2022.This book addresses the question of what unifies the French philosophical tradition across the twentieth century by exploring these two questions. Kant claimed that the structure of experience mirrored the categories of thought because the cognitive faculties of the subject played a constitutive role in structuring experience. As such, the structure of thought for Kant is fundamentally tied to the nature of metaphysics. In developing his account of what thinking entailed, Kant took judgement, th…Read more
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213Kierkegaard and the Logic of SenseIn Casey Ford, Suzanne McCullagh & Karen Houle (eds.), Minor ethics: Deleuzian variations, Mcgill-queen's University Press. pp. 128-149. 2021.My aim in this paper is to explore how we might understand the relation of Deleuze’s early works to ethics, and to develop the connections between this way of understanding Deleuze and the work of Søren Kierkegaard. I will claim that we can view both figures as arguing that the sense or meaning we take from the world, and the metaphysical structure we ascribe to it, is secondary to an ethical stance we take in the face of a world of becoming. As such, the central preoccupation of both Kierkegaar…Read more
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229Merleau-Ponty and the Phenomenology of Difference: Difference and Repetition, Chapter OneDeleuze and Guattari Studies 13 (3): 401-415. 2019.In this paper, I will discuss Deleuze’s account of the reversal of Platonism in chapter one of Difference and Repetition, tying it together with Merleau-Ponty’s work on perception. In Difference and Repetition, there are only two references to Merleau-Ponty – one in the note on Heidegger that was added at the insistence of his examiners, and one brief mention in a footnote. Nonetheless, as we shall see, many of the discussions of the origin of representation, as well as the relation of the dete…Read more
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56The Logic of Gilles Deleuze (review)History and Philosophy of Logic 43 (4): 406-408. 2022.In The Logic of Gilles Deleuze, Shores addresses the paradox that despite Deleuze having written a number of books ostensibly on logic (The Logic of Sense, The Logic of Sensation), there has been v...
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734Salomon Maimon's Essay on Transcendental PhilosophyContinuum. 2010.Essay on Transcendental Philosophy presents the first English translation of Salomon Maimon's principal work, originally published in Berlin in 1790. In this book, Maimon seeks to further the revolution in philosophy wrought by Kant's Critique of Pure Reason by establishing a new foundation for transcendental philosophy in the idea of difference. Kant judged Maimon to be his most profound critic, and the Essay went on to have a decisive influence on the course of post-Kantian German Idealism. A …Read more
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1Kant and Spinozism: Transcendental Idealism and Immanence from Jacobi to Deleuze by Beth Lord (review)Kant Studies Online 2014 (1). 2014.
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418Representation and Sensation—A Defence of Deleuze’s Philosophy of PaintingJournal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology 3 (1): 55-65. 2016.Deleuze’s philosophy of painting can be seen to pose certain challenges to a phenomenological approach to philosophy. While a phenomenological response to Deleuze’s philosophy is clearly needed, I show in this article how an approach taken in a recent paper by Christian Lotz proves inadequate. Lotz argues that through Deleuze’s refusal to accept the place of representation in art, he is unable to distinguish art from decoration, or to give a coherent account of how the content of art can be repr…Read more
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142Intellectual Disability, Choice, and Relational EthicsPhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 24 (4): 377-380. 2017.In ‘Liberal individualism and Deleuzean Relationality,’ Clegg, Murphy, and Almack argue that the ability to choose has become something of a dogma in the management of intellectual disability, and one that sits badly with the heterogeneity of those with intellectual disabilities. They argue for a move away from choice as the primary ethical category to an ethics of relationality, following from the work of Deleuze and Guattari, to offer a more nuanced and stable form of care. In this commentary,…Read more
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337Deleuze, Freud and the Three SynthesesDeleuze and Guatarri Studies 11 (3): 297-327. 2017.The aim of this paper is to provide a close reading of Deleuze's complex account of Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle in Difference and Repetition. The first part provides a reading of Beyond the Pleasure Principle itself, showing why Freud feels the need to develop a transcendental account of repetition. In the second, I show the limitations of Freud's account, drawing on the work of Weismann to argue that Freud's transcendental model mischaracterises repetition. In the third part, I show h…Read more
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251Transcendental illusion and antinomy in Kant and DeleuzeIn Edward Willatt & Matt Lee (eds.), Thinking Between Deleuze and Kant: A Strange Encounter, Continuum. 2009.In this paper, I want to look at the way in which Deleuze's reading of Kant's transcendental dialectic influences some of the key thèmes of Différence and Répétition. As we shall see, in the transcendental dialectic, Kant takes the step of claiming that reason, in its natural functioning, is prone to misadventures. Whereas for Descartes, for instance, error takes place between two faculties, such as when reason (wrongly) infers that a stick in water is bent on the basis of sensé impressions, Kan…Read more
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403Dialectics of difference and negation: the responses of Deleuze and Hegel to representationDissertation, University of Warwick. 2008.This thesis has the following aims. First, to show that Deleuze can be situated clearly within the post-Kantian tradition. This is achieved through an analysis of the relations between Kant's transcendental idealism and Deleuze's transcendental empiricism. Second, to explore the criticisms of representational theories of difference which can be found in the work of Deleuze and Hegel. Representational theories are best understood as theories which rely on a logic which is governed by relations be…Read more
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126The Politics of Creation: Peter Hallward's Deleuze and the Philosophy of Creation (review)Pli 18. 2007.
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177Sartre and the VirtualPhilosophy Today 50 (Supplement): 126-132. 2006.Based on a close reading of Sartre’s essay, The Transcendence of the Ego, this paper shows the importance of Sartre’s arguments against the transcendental ego for the Deleuzian project of restructuring the transcendental field. Sartre formulates four propositions which he takes to be the implications of the rejection of the transcendental ego as found in Kant and Husserl. The paper attempts to show how these propositions are derived, and furthermore how they become reinterpreted by Deleuze into …Read more
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331The logic of the rhizome in the work of Hegel and DeleuzeIn Karen Houle, Jim Vernon & Jean-Clet Martin (eds.), Hegel and Deleuze: Together Again for the First Time, Northwestern University Press. 2013.
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24815 Deleuze's philosophical heritage: unity, difference, and onto-theologyIn Daniel W. Smith & Henry Somers-Hall (eds.), The Cambridge companion to Deleuze, Cambridge University Press. 2012.In this paper, I want to look at Deleuze’s philosophical heritage in two different senses. In the first part of the paper, I explore his relationship to perhaps the most influential philosopher of the twentieth century, Martin Heidegger. Heidegger plays a central role in Deleuze’s early philosophy, and even when in his later collaborations with Guattari their explicit references to Heidegger are dismissive, Heidegger’s influence can clearly be detected, particularly in their critiques of other p…Read more
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30Deleuze's Difference and Repetition: An Edinburgh Philosophical GuideEdinburgh University Press. 2012.When students read Difference and Repetition for the first time, they face two main hurdles: the wide range of sources that Deleuze draws upon and his dense writing style. This Edinburgh Philosophical Guide helps students to negotiate these hurdles, taking them through the text step by step. It situates Deleuze within Continental philosophy more broadly and explains why he develops his philosophy in his unique way. Seasoned Deleuzians will also be interested in Somers-Hall's novel interpretation…Read more
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175Simon O'Sullivan and Stephen Zepke, eds. Deleuze, Guattari and the Production of the New Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 30 (2): 124-126. 2010.
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217Deleuze and Merleau-Ponty: The Aesthetics of DifferenceSymposium 10 (1): 213-221. 2006.The purposes of this paper are, first, to show the importance within Deleuze's aesthetics of the notion of the Gestalt, conceived as a figure against a background, and second to show that recognizing the importance of this notion leads to a sympathy for themes in the work of Merleau-Ponty. After showing the motivations for Merleau-Ponty's adoption of the concept of the Gestalt, and its application within Eye and Mind, I wish to show that despite the similarities in their analyses Merleau-Ponty's…Read more
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