Time and History in Deleuze and Serres edited by Bernd Herzogenrath (Continuum, Uk, 2011, Hardcover)

The first critical appraisal of Deleuze and Serre’s ‘joint’ conception of time and history.


Pub. date: 15 Dec 2011 (Hardcover)

Description

For Gilles Deleuze, time is ‘out of joint’. For Michel Serres, it is ‘a crumpled handkerchief’. In both of these concepts, explicit references are made to the non-linear dynamics of Chaos and Complexity theory, as well as the New Sciences. The groundbreaking work of these key thinkers has the potential to instigate a radical break from traditional existentialist theories of time and history, affording us the opportunity to view history and historical events as a complex, non-linear system of feedback-loops, couplings and interfaces. 

In this collection, the first to address the comparative historiographies of Deleuze and Serres, twelve leading experts – including William Connolly, Eugene Holland, Claire Colebrook and Elizabeth Grosz – examine these alternative concepts of time and history, exposing critical arguments in this important and emerging field of research.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction, Bernd Herzogenrath \ 

2. What is Revolutionary in Deleuze and Guattari’s Philosophy of History?, Eugene W. Holland \ 

3. Michel Serres: From the History of Mathematics to Critical History, David Webb \ 

4. Deleuze, Foucault and History, Paul Patton \ 

5. Ulyssean Trajectories: A (New) Look at Michel Serres’s Topology of Time, Maria Assad \

 6. Time Folded and Crumpled: Time, History, Self-organisation and the Methodology of Michel Serres, Kelvin Clayton \ 

7. Posthuman Humanities Claire Colebrook \ 

8. Deleuze on Bergsonian Duration and Nietzsche’s "Eternal Return", Nathan Widder \ 

9. Time Out of Joint, Elizabeth Grosz \ 

10. The Crumpled Handkerchief, William Connolly and Jane Bennett \ 

11. Crystal History: 'You Pick Up the Pieces. You Connect the Dots', Hanjo Berressem \ 

12. A Physical Theory of Heredity/Heresy: The Education of Henry Adams, Bernd Herzogenrath \ 

Bibliography \ Index

Author(s)

Bernd Herzogenrath,

Bernd Herzogenrath is Professor of American Studies at the University of Frankfurt, Germany.

27.10.2011 - Gilles Deleuze. The Intensive Reduction - Constantin V. Boundas (Continuum, Uk, Paperback)

Pub. date: 27 Oct 2011 (Paperback)
Pub. date: 15 Feb 2009 (Hardcover)

Description

Gilles Deleuze: The Intensive Reduction brings together eighteen essays written by an internationally acclaimed team of scholars to provide a comprehensive overview of the work of Gilles Deleuze, one of the most important and influential European thinkers of the twentieth century. Each essay addresses a central issue in Deleuze’s philosophy (and that of his regular co-author, Félix Guattari) that remains to this day controversial and unsettled. 
Since Deleuze’s death in 1995, the technical aspects of his philosophy have been largely neglected. These essays address that gap in the existing scholarship by focusing on his contribution to philosophy. Each contributor advances the discussion of a contested point in the philosophy of Deleuze to shed new light on as yet poorly-understood problems and to stimulate new and vigorous exchanges regarding his relationship to philosophy, schizoanlysis, his aesthetic, ethical and political thought. 
Together, the essays in this volume make an invaluable contribution to our understanding of Deleuze’s philosophy.

Introduction 
Part I: Deleuze and Philosophy 1. Deleuze and the Question of Ontology, Véronique Bergen (University of Paris VIII, France) 
2. The 'Future' of Deleuze: An Unfinished Project, Zsuzsa Baross (Trent University, Canada) 
3. The New Harmony, Ronald Bogue (University of Georgia, USA) 
4. The New Whitehead?: An Ontology of the 'Virtual' in Whitehead's Metaphysics,Keith Robinson (Davenport University, USA) 
Part II: Schizoanalysis and Lacan
5. On the Idea of Pure Practical Reason in Kant, Deleuze and Lacan, Andrew Cutrofello (Loyola University Chicago, USA) 
6. What if the Law is Written in a Porno Book? Deterritorializing Lacan, De-Oedipalizing Deleuze and Guattari, Shannon Winnubst (Southwestern University, USA)
7. From the Surface to the Depths: On the Transition from Logic of Sense to Anti-Oedipus, Daniel W. Smith (Purdue University, USA) 
Part III: Deleuze and the Arts 8. Deleuze, Philosophy and the Materiality of Painting, Darren Ambrose (University of Warwick, UK) 
9. Deleuze and Merleau-Ponty: Aesthetics of Difference, Henry Somers-Hall (University of Warwick, UK)
10. From the Death of the Author to the Disappearance of the Reader, Bruce Baugh (University College of the Cariboo, Canada) 
Part IV: Deleuze: The Ethical and the Political 11. Affirmation versus Vulnerability: On Contemporary Ethical Debates, Rosi Braidotti (Utrecht University, the Netherlands) 
12. From First Sparks to Local Clashes: Which Politics Today?, Philippe Mengue (Collège International de Philosophie, Paris, France) 
13. Deleuze's Practical Philosophy, Paul Patton (University of New South Wales, Australia) 
14. Gilles Deleuze's Politics: From Marxism to the Missing People, Alain Beaulieu (University of Sudbury, Canada) 
15. Affirmative Nomadology and War Machine, Eugene Holland (Ohio State University, USA) 
16. Deleuze and the 'Pairing at a Distance', Arnaud Villani (Lycée Masséna, Nice, France) 
List of Contributors 
Index

Author(s)

Constantin V. Boundas,

Constantin V. Boundas is Professor of Philosophy at Trent University, Canada. He is the editor of The Deleuze Reader (Columbia UP, 1993) and, with Dorothea Olkowski, The Theater of Philosophy: Critical Essays on Gilles Deleuze (Routledge, 1994). He is also the translator of Deleuze's The Logic of Sense (Continuum, 2002) andEmpiricism and Subjectivity (Columbia UP, 1991).

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