This collection, first published in 1994, contains thirteen critical essays by established scholars from the fields of philosophy, literary criticism, feminist theory, politics, and sociology, and a new essay by Deleuze himself. That the contributors are from a variety of fields indicates the extent to which Deleuze’s work can and will impact theory far beyond the discipline of philosophy.

This collection, first published in 1994, contains thirteen critical essays by established scholars from the fields of philosophy, literary criticism, feminist theory, politics, and sociology, and a new essay by Deleuze himself. That the contributors are from a variety of fields indicates the extent to which Deleuze's work can and will impact theory far beyond the discipline of philosophy.

Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Editors' Introduction -- 2 He Stuttered -- I Difference and Repetition -- 3 Difference and Unity in Gilles Deleuze -- 4 Gilles Deleuze, The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque -- II Subjectivity -- 5 The Crack of Time and the Ideal Game -- 6 Deleuze: Serialization and Subject-Formation -- III Desire and the Overturning of Platonism -- 7 Nietzsche's Dice Throw: Tragedy, Nihilism, and the Body without Organs -- 8 Anti-Platonism and Art -- IV The Question of Becoming-Woman -- 9 Toward a New Nomadism: Feminist Deleuzian Tracks -- or, Metaphysics and Metabolism -- 10 A Thousand Tiny Sexes: Feminism and Rhizomatics -- V Minor Languages and Nomad Arts -- 11 On the Concept of Minor Literature: From Kafka to Kateb Yacine -- 12 Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation -- 13 The Cinema, Reader of Gilles Deleuze -- VI Lines of Flight -- 14 Cartography of the Year 1000: Variations on A Thousand Plateaus -- 15 The Society of Dismembered Body Parts -- Selected Critical References to Gilles Deleuze and His Works -- Index

This book provides a historical analysis of the philosophical problem of individuation, and a new trajectory in its treatment. Drawing on the work of Gilles Deleuze, C.S. Peirce and Gilbert Simondon, the problem of individuation is taken into the realm of modernity. This is a vibrant contribution to contemporary debates in European philosophy.

Why does knowledge of philosophy presuppose knowledge of reality? What are the characters in Deleuze's theatre and philosophy? How are his famous metaphysical distinctions secondary to the concept of philosophy as practice and politics? These questions are answered through careful analysis and application of Deleuzian principles.

The Non-Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze takes up Deleuze's most powerful argument on the task of contemporary philosophy in the West. Deleuze argues that it is only through a creative engagement with the forms of non-philosophy--notably modern art, literature and cinema--that philosophy can hope to attain the conceptual resources to restore the broken links of perception, language and emotion. In short, this is the only future for philosophy if it is to repair its fragile relationship to immanence to the world as it is.A sequence of dazzling essays analyze Deleuze's investigations into the modern arts. Particular attention is paid to Deleuze's exploration of Liebniz in relation to modern painting and of Borges to an understanding of the relationship between philosophy, literature and language. By illustrating Deleuze's own approach to the arts, and to modern literature in particular, the book demonstrates the critical significance of Deleuze's call for a future philosophy defined as an "art of inventing concepts."

In this book, Joshua Ramey examines the extent to which Gilles Deleuze's ethics, metaphysics, and politics were informed by, and can only be fully understood through, this hermetic tradition.