Against Continuity
Gilles Deleuze's Speculative Realism
Published on 22. January 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
328 pages
978-1-4744-4778-2 (ISBN)
Description
Against Continuity is the first book to demonstrate that the beating heart of Gilles Deleuze's philosophy is a systematic ontology of irreducible, singular entities. This requires a radical break with decades of Deleuzian orthodoxy, according to which Deleuze's metaphysics revolves around the dissolution of discrete entities into a continuous world of flows and events.With reference to all of Deleuze's work, including published and untranslated seminars, as well as the recently published 'Lettres et autres textes', Arjen Kleinherenbrink critically compares Deleuze's ontology to seven related contemporary thinkers: Levi Bryant, Maurizio Ferraris, Markus Gabriel, Manuel DeLanda, Graham Harman, Tristan Garcia and Bruno Latour. These comparisons establish Deleuze as an important precursor to object-oriented speculative realism and open up exciting new avenues of thought for critics and supporters of Deleuze alike.
Reviews / Votes
Arguably one of the closest and most rigorous secondary readings of Deleuze's oeuvre. -- Ekin Erkan, The New Centre for Research & Practice * Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy * I have walked away from this book feeling that I need to rethink everything I thought I knew about Deleuze and read his work again with fresh eyes. I've been studying and teaching Deleuze for 25 years. * Levi Bryant, Collin College *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
1 black and white illustration
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
506 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-4778-2 (9781474447782)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Person
Arjen Kleinherenbrink is Assistant Professor in the Center for Contemporary European Philosophy, in the Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen.
Content
Introduction: The Machine Thesis
All Entities are Machines
A Speculative Philosophy
Method and Structure
1. Deleuze and Ontology
Much Ado about Ontology
To the Things Themselves
A Fourfold and Three Syntheses First Intermezzo - Levi Bryant and Twofold Machines
2. The Externality Thesis
Relations are External to Terms
The Experience of Externality
Speculative Arguments for Externality
3. Critiques of Internalism
Difference and Repetition
Depth and Height
The Image of Thought
4. The Machinic Body
No Being without a Body
All Bodies are ProblematicSecond Intermezzo - Maurizio Ferraris and Unamendable Objects
5. Relations between Machines
The Connective Synthesis
Sense at the Surface
Actuality is a Twofold Third Intermezzo - Markus Gabriel and Fields of Sense
6. Inside the Machines
The Powers that Be
Essence is a Twofold Fourth Intermezzo - Manuel DeLanda and Assemblage Theory
7. Machines and Change
The Disjunctive Synthesis Fifth Intermezzo - Graham Harman and Fourfold Objects
The Notion of Becoming
Assemblages and Intensities
8. The Construction of Machines
The Conjunctive Synthesis Sixth Intermezzo - Tristan Garcia and Formal Things
Rhizomes and Hierarchies
9. Machine Ontology and Thought
Self and World Seventh Intermezzo - Bruno Latour and Irreducible Actants
Platonism and Paralogisms
A Transcendental Empiricism
Conclusion: Ontology and Discontinuity
Bibliography Names Index General Index
All Entities are Machines
A Speculative Philosophy
Method and Structure
1. Deleuze and Ontology
Much Ado about Ontology
To the Things Themselves
A Fourfold and Three Syntheses First Intermezzo - Levi Bryant and Twofold Machines
2. The Externality Thesis
Relations are External to Terms
The Experience of Externality
Speculative Arguments for Externality
3. Critiques of Internalism
Difference and Repetition
Depth and Height
The Image of Thought
4. The Machinic Body
No Being without a Body
All Bodies are ProblematicSecond Intermezzo - Maurizio Ferraris and Unamendable Objects
5. Relations between Machines
The Connective Synthesis
Sense at the Surface
Actuality is a Twofold Third Intermezzo - Markus Gabriel and Fields of Sense
6. Inside the Machines
The Powers that Be
Essence is a Twofold Fourth Intermezzo - Manuel DeLanda and Assemblage Theory
7. Machines and Change
The Disjunctive Synthesis Fifth Intermezzo - Graham Harman and Fourfold Objects
The Notion of Becoming
Assemblages and Intensities
8. The Construction of Machines
The Conjunctive Synthesis Sixth Intermezzo - Tristan Garcia and Formal Things
Rhizomes and Hierarchies
9. Machine Ontology and Thought
Self and World Seventh Intermezzo - Bruno Latour and Irreducible Actants
Platonism and Paralogisms
A Transcendental Empiricism
Conclusion: Ontology and Discontinuity
Bibliography Names Index General Index