Immanence and the Vertigo of Philosophy
Title | Immanence and the Vertigo of Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | Christian Kerslake |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 334 |
Release | 2019-07-31 |
Genre | Immanence (Philosophy) |
ISBN | 1474469809 |
One of the terminological constants in the philosophical work of Gilles Deleuze is the word 'immanence', and it has therefore become a foothold for those wishing to understand exactly what 'Deleuzian philosophy' is. Deleuze's philosophy of immanence is held to be fundamentally characterised by its opposition to all philosophies of 'transcendence'. On that basis, it is widely believed that Deleuze's project is premised on a return to a materialist metaphysics. Christian Kerslake argues that such an interpretation is fundamentally misconceived, and has led to misunderstandings of Deleuze's philosophy, which is rather one of the latest heirs to the post-Kantian tradition of thought about immanence. This will be the first book to assess Deleuze's relationship to Kantian epistemology and post-Kantian philosophy, and will attempt to make Deleuze's philosophy intelligible to students working within that tradition. But it also attempts to reconstruct our image of the post-Kantian tradition, isolating a lineage that takes shape in the work of Schelling and Wronski, and which is developed in the twentieth century by Bergson, Warrain and Deleuze.
Deleuze and the Unconscious
Title | Deleuze and the Unconscious PDF eBook |
Author | Christian Kerslake |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2007-03-08 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 144115499X |
By the end of the twentieth century, it had been almost forgotten that the Freudian account of the unconscious was only one of many to have emerged from the intellectual ferment of the second half of the 19th century. The philosophical roots of the concept of the unconscious in Leibniz, Kant, Schelling and Schopenhauer had also been occluded from view by the dominance of Freudianism. From his earliest work of the 1940s until his final writings of the 1990s, Gilles Deleuze stood at odds with this dominant current, rejecting Freud as sole source for ideas about the unconscious. This most 'contemporary' of French philosophers acted as custodian of all the ideas that had been rejected by the proponents of the psychoanalytic model, carefully preserving them and, when possible, injecting them with new life. In 1950s and 60s Deleuze turned to Henri Bergson's theories of memory and instinct and to Carl Jung's theory of archetypes. In Difference and Repetition (1968) he conceived of a 'differential unconscious' based on Leibnizian principles. He was also immersed from the beginning in esoteric and occult ideas about the nature of the mind. Deleuze and the Unconscious shows how these tendencies combine in Deleuze's work to engender a wholly new approach to the unconscious, for which active relations to the unconscious are just as important as the better known pathologies of neurosis and psychosis.
Deleuze and the Naming of God
Title | Deleuze and the Naming of God PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Colucciello Barber |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 310 |
Release | 2015-01-30 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 074868638X |
Deleuze and the Naming of God addresses the intersection between Deleuze's thought and the notion of religion to proposes an alliance between immanence and the act of naming God. In doing so, Barber gives us a way out of the paralysing debate between reli
Immanence - Deleuze and Philosophy
Title | Immanence - Deleuze and Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | Miguel de Beistegui |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2010-06-26 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0748638318 |
Identifies immanence as the original impetus and the driving force behind Deleuze's philosophy In 5 chapters dealing with the status of thought itself, ontology, logic, ethics and aesthetics, de Beistegui reveals how immanence is realised in each of these classical domains of philosophy. Ultimately, he argues, immanence is an infinite task, and transcendence the opposition with which philosophy will always need to reckon.
Gilles Deleuze's Luminous Philosophy
Title | Gilles Deleuze's Luminous Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | Hanjo Berressem |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2020-05-28 |
Genre | Electronic books |
ISBN | 1474450733 |
Engaging the whole body of Deleuze's work, including less rehearsed texts such as The Actual and the Virtual, Lucretius and the Simulacrum and his lectures on Spinoza, Hanjo Berressem traces the 'line of light' that runs through Deleuze's thought.
Immanent Transcendence
Title | Immanent Transcendence PDF eBook |
Author | Patrice Haynes |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 2012-08-23 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1441150862 |
Over the last twenty years materialist thinkers in the continental tradition have increasingly emphasized the category of immanence. Yet the turn to immanence has not meant the wholesale rejection of the concept of transcendence, but rather its reconfiguration in immanent or materialist terms: an immanent transcendence. Through an engagement with the work of Deleuze, Irigaray and Adorno, Patrice Haynes examines how the notion of immanent transcendence can help articulate a non-reductive materialism by which to rethink politics, ethics and theology in exciting new ways. However, she argues that contrary to what some might expect, immanent accounts of matter and transcendence are ultimately unable to do justice to material finitude. Indeed, Haynes concludes by suggesting that a theistic understanding of divine transcendence offers ways to affirm fully material immanence, thus pointing towards the idea of a theological materialism.
Reflections on Time and Politics
Title | Reflections on Time and Politics PDF eBook |
Author | Nathan Widder |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 222 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0271033940 |
"Explores the nature of time and its implications for questions of politics, ethics, and the self. Shows how a conception of time that breaks with common sense notions of chronological order can help us rethink the understandings of identity, difference, power, resistance, and overcoming"--Provided by publisher.