Deleuze and Becoming

Although ‘becoming’ is one of the fundamental concepts in Deleuze’s philosophy, Deleuze and Becoming is the first book to provide a systematic and detailed analysis of the new components Deleuze assigns to this ancient notion. Samantha Bankston shows how the concept evolved considerably throughout Deleuze’s career, and argues that it received its most profound expression in Deleuze’s readings of two ‘temporal logics’: Bergson’s duration and Nietzsche’s eternal return. Along the way, Bankston provides insightful appraisals of various thinkers (Leibniz, Bachelard, Žižek, Badiou) and writers (Borges, Klossowski, Proust) that influenced or engaged with Deleuze’s work. Bankston’s writing is admirably lucid, and Deleuze and Becoming is destined to become a standard reference work on one of Deleuze’s most complex concepts. -- Daniel W. Smith, Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University, USA
The fact that clarity and theoretical rigour is not lost over the course of a book ... ensures that Bankston’s work will become a major reference point for any serious engagement with Deleuze’s overall system of thought. -- Annual Review of Critical Psychology on Deleuze and Psychology * Alan Bristow *