• Notes on Contributors
    In Michael James Bennett & Tano S. Posteraro (eds.), Deleuze and Evolutionary Theory, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 183-184. 2019.
  • Index
    In Michael James Bennett & Tano S. Posteraro (eds.), Deleuze and Evolutionary Theory, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 185-194. 2019.
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    Introduction: Historical Formations and Organic Forms
    In Michael James Bennett & Tano S. Posteraro (eds.), Deleuze and Evolutionary Theory, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 1-22. 2019.
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    Bergson by Mark Sinclair
    Review of Metaphysics 74 (1): 165-167. 2020.
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    1 Lucretius
    In Graham Jones & Jon Roffe (eds.), Deleluze's Philosophical Lineage II, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 8-28. 2019.
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    Habermas’s Interpretation of Arendt in The Future of Human Nature
    Philosophy Today 65 (3): 727-745. 2021.
    This article responds to several liberal bioethicists’ criticisms of Jürgen Habermas’s The Future of Human Nature by placing it in the context of his intellectual influences and career-spanning theorization of communicative rationality. In particular, I argue that Habermas’s critics have not grasped his interpretation of Hannah Arendt’s concept of natality. Far from merely ventriloquizing his friend and teacher, Habermas distinguishes his construal of that concept from Arendt’s, which he present…Read more
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    Deleuze and Evolutionary Theory (edited book)
    Edinburgh University Press. 2019.
    Deleuze and Evolutionary Theory gathers together contributions by many of the central theorists in Deleuze studies who have led the way in breaking down the boundaries between philosophical and biological research. They focus on the significance of Deleuze and Guattari’s engagements with evolutionary theory across the full range of their work, from the interpretation of Darwin in Difference and Repetition to the symbiotic alliances of wasp and orchid in A Thousand Plateaus. In this way, they exp…Read more
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    Deleuze and Heidegger on Truth And Science
    Open Philosophy 1 (1): 173-190. 2018.
    Deleuze and Guattari’s manner of distinguishing science from philosophy in their last collaboration What is Philosophy? seems to imply a hierarchy, according to which philosophy is more adequate to the reality of virtual events than science is. This suggests, in turn, that philosophy has a better claim than science to truth. This paper clarifies Deleuze‘s views about truth throughout his career. Deleuze equivocates over the term, using it in an “originary” and a “derived” sense, probably under t…Read more
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    Texts and Icons in Heidegger’s Metaphysical Tradition
    Diacritics 40 (2): 26-49. 2012.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Texts and Icons in Heidegger’s Metaphysical TraditionMichael James Bennett (bio)[End Page 26]This essay is about texts that draw attention to themselves as texts, that is, as material, graphical figures, rather than as more or less efficiently pellucid semantic relays. In other words, it is about what happens when texts behave like images. In what follows I examine a series of philosophical contexts where this question appears to be …Read more
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    Bergson’s Environmental Aesthetic
    Environmental Philosophy 9 (2): 67-94. 2012.
    This paper investigates the connection between Henri Bergson’s biological epistemology and his moral theory. Specifically, it examines the distinction between the morality of what Bergson calls “closed” and “open” societies in his late work Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1932). I argue that “open” morality provides the moral correlate of a non-instrumentalizing orientation toward nature. Here Bergson’s thought is disposed toward a very specific kind of environmental ethic, an aesthetic on…Read more
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    Bergson's Environmental Aesthetic
    Environmental Philosophy 9 (2). 2012.
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    In 1988 the philosopher Gilles Deleuze remarked that throughout his career he had always been 'circling around' a concept of nature. Showing how Deleuze weaves original readings of Plato, the Stoics, Aristotle, and Epicurus into some of his most famous arguments about event, difference, and problem, Michael James Bennett argues that these interpretations of ancient Greek physics provide vital clues for understanding Deleuze's own conception of nature. "Deleuze and Ancient Greek Physics" delves …Read more
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    Cicero's De Fato in Deleuze's Logic of Sense
    Deleuze and Guatarri Studies 9 (1): 25-58. 2015.
    The arguments of the Stoic Chrysippus recorded in Cicero's De Fato are of great importance to Deleuze's conception of events in The Logic of Sense. The purpose of this paper is to explicate these arguments, to which Deleuze's allusions are extremely terse, and to situate them in the context of Deleuze's broader project in that book. Drawing on contemporary scholarship on the Stoics, I show the extent to which Chrysippus' views on compatibilism, hypothetical inference and astrology support Deleuz…Read more
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    Deleuze and Epicurean Philosophy: Atomic Speed and Swerve Speed
    Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy 21 (2): 131-157. 2013.
    This paper reconstructs Gilles Deleuze’s interpretation of Epicurean atomism, and explicates his claim that it represents a problematic idea, similar to the idea exemplified in early, “barbaric” accounts of the differential calculus. Deleuzian problematic ideas are characterized by a mechanism through whose activity the components of the idea become determinate in relating reciprocally to one another, rather than in being determined exclusively in relation to an extrinsic paradigm or framework. …Read more