The Priority of Events
Deleuze's Logic of Sense
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Published:16th Aug '11
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Sean Bowden shows you how the Deleuzian event should be understood in terms of the broader metaphysical thesis that fixed things or substances are always secondary with respect to events. He achieves this through a reconstruction of Deleuze’s relation to the history of thought from the Stoics through to Simondon, taking account of Leibniz, Lautman, structuralism and psychoanalysis along the way. Key features:• Focuses on Deleuze's concept of events and highlights the philosophical richness of The Logic of Sense• Engages with material by Lautman and Simondon that has not yet been translated into English• Examines and clarifies a number of Deleuze’s most difficult philosophical concepts, including sense, problematic Ideas and intensive individuation
A timely and invaluable resource for resuscitating interest in a work that, despite the current renaissance in Deleuze studies, continues to perplex and discomfort those who seek a way into its unique and hybrid structure and conceptions … By constructing a coherent argument, which frames a coherent route for us to follow, Bowden provides a welcome gift to both the novice reader and the experienced scholar. -- David Scott, Coppin State University * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *
Not only does the book cover in impressive detail major facets of the book’s argumentation, it will provide the starting point for readers in the future who wish to engage with the staggering and elaborate, not to say baroque, metaphysical system presented in The Logic of Sense … Bowden’s excellent book deserves to be read and re-read: surely the greatest praise for any book, and praise rarely justly bestowed on a book of scholarship. It is certainly warranted here. -- Jon Roffe, University of Melbourne * Parrhesia *
Not only does the book cover in impressive detail major facets of the book’s argumentation, it will provide the starting point for readers in the future who wish to engage with the staggering and elaborate, not to say baroque, metaphysical system presented in The Logic of Sense … Bowden’s excellent book deserves to be read and re-read: surely the greatest praise for any book, and praise rarely justly bestowed on a book of scholarship. It is certainly warranted here. -- Jon Roffe, University of Melbourne, * Parrhesia *
This is a wide-ranging and penetrating study of one of Deleuze's most important works. A superb book. -- Daniel W. Smith, Purdue University
This is a wide-ranging and penetrating study of one of Deleuze's most important works. A superb book. -- Daniel W. Smith, Purdue University
This book will readily take its place as one of the most important volumes in all of Deleuze Studies. -- Nick Nesbitt, Princeton University
ISBN: 9780748643646
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304 pages