Deleuze at the End of the World

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With an unprecedented ability to reconstruct the singularity of the sources of Deleuzian philosophy, this collection of essays opens a unique chance to make visible other corners where his thought lives with an insistent strength. At the End of the World, elsewhere in the Cosmos where enormous forces are actualized giving new directions and shapes to a renewed virtual Deleuze. -- Cristobal Duran, associate professor of philosophy, Andres Bello National University Deleuze's concept of 'geophilosophy' is brilliantly exemplified in Olkowski and Ferreyra's volume. Written by an impressive array of Argentinian scholars, these essays make it clear that Argentina has become a global center not only for Deleuze scholarship but, even more so, for highly original and rigorous philosophical work that remains deeply informed by its Latin American context. -- Daniel W. Smith, professor of philosophy, Purdue University Focused largely but not exclusively on Difference and Repetition, the essays collected here shed new light on some of the better known pathways of Deleuze's relations to the history of philosophy as well as some of his lesser known relations to mathematics, physics, biology and linguistics. They are a wonderful addition to the secondary literature on the sources of Deleuze's philosophy. -- Paul Patton, author of Deleuzian Concepts: Philosophy, Colonization, Politics and translator of Gilles Deleuze's Difference and Repetition, Wuhan University and Flinders University "Intensity" and "Idea" are concepts that dominate this book as interpretive keys. For a philosopher like Gilles Deleuze -who thinks of philosophy as a theory of multiplicities- it is essential to approach its constructive concepts: transcendental repetition, differential singularity, structural logic, in an immanent critical perspective that supposes an impersonal vitalistic investigation of the organism, a problematization of the doctrine of the imagination, a construction of temporal syntheses and an approach to the uses of language. -- Adrian Cangi, professor and researcher, University of Buenos Aires