Featuring contributions by leading academics this collection is a companion to one of the most intricate of Deleuze's philosophical texts, articulating Leibnizian thought within the context of Baroque expressionism, characterized by its interdisciplinary approach to philosophy. This reader offers an incisive critical overview of its key themes INDICE: Preface - Abbreviations - Notes on Contributors - Introduction; N.McDonnell ; S.van Tuinen - Four Things Deleuze Learned from Leibniz; M.Lærke -The Free and Indeterminate Accord of 'The New Harmony': The Significance of Benjamin's Study of the Baroque for Deleuze; T.Flanagan - Leibniz's Combinatorial Art of Synthesis and the Temporal Interval of the Fold; N.McDonnell - Leibniz, Mathematics and the Monad; S.Duffy - Perception, Justification and Transcendental Philosophy; G.Banham - Genesis and Difference: Deleuze, MaImon, and the Post-Kantian Reading of Leibniz; D.W.Smith - A Transcendental Philosophy of the Event: Deleuze's Non-Phenomenological Reading of Leibniz; S.van Tuinen - Towards a Political Ontology of the Fold: Deleuze, Heidegger, Whitehead and the'Fourfold' Event; K.Robinson - Two Floors of Thinking; or, Deleuze's Aesthetics of Folds; B.M.Kaiser - Capacity or Plasticity: So just what is a Body? M.Hammond - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-55287-6
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 280
- Fecha Publicación: 30/11/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés