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Gilles Deleuze's Difference and Repetition James Williams

Gilles Deleuze's Difference and Repetition By James Williams

Gilles Deleuze's Difference and Repetition by James Williams

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This is the first critical introduction to Difference and Repetition, Gilles Deleuze's most important work of philosophy and one of the most significant texts of contemporary philosophy.

Gilles Deleuze's Difference and Repetition Summary

Gilles Deleuze's Difference and Repetition: A Critical Introduction and Guide by James Williams

This is the first critical introduction to Difference and Repetition, Gilles Deleuze's most important work of philosophy and one of the most significant texts of contemporary philosophy. In offering a critical analysis of Deleuze's methods, principles and arguments, the book enables readers to engage with the revolutionary core of Deleuze's philosophy and take up favourable or critical positions with respect to its most innovative and controversial ideas. The book will also help to extend Deleuze's work to philosophers working in the analytic tradition.

Gilles Deleuze's Difference and Repetition Reviews

The task Williams appears to have set himself and a task he seems to have succeeded in is to present Deleuze's work philosophically, warts and all. What this does is enable new readers to approach a key text in modern European philosophy in such a way that they are aware of both the strengths and weakenesses of that work and the opportunities for future engagement with Deleuze. Philosophical Quarterly It is a mark of quality that Williams's book helps the reader to grasp firmly some of the most difficult questions that arise on reading Difference and Repetition![The book] is written in an accessible style and takes a bold and clear interpretative stand in response to the two challenges of illustrating Deleuze's philosophy in relation to our lives and of explaining some of his technical innovations in a critical manner...The book will certainly motivate any reader to study Deleuze. -- Isabella Palin Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology This book is a turning point for those interested in Deleuze that will mean that writing on Deleuze will never be the same ... Williams has produced an exemplary reading of what he rightly calls one of the great philosophical works of the twentieth century ... This book deserves to be called a major event in Deleuze scholarship. -- Iain MacKenzie, Poststructural and Radical Politics Newsletter A major event in Deleuze scholarship. -- John Protevi, Louisiana State University James Williams succeeds in making Deleuze intelligible ! he has performed an invaluable service both to existing readers of Deleuze and to new readers keen to expose themselves to certain vital possibilities of contemporary philosophy and theory in general. This will be the definitive guide to Deleuze's text for many years to come. -- Keith Ansell Pearson, University of Warwick There is no doubt that James Williams's book is a significant contribution to Deleuze scholarship. Williams balances his evident passion for Deleuze with a clear, yet erudite exposition of Deleuzian principles and concerns. The result is a guide to Deleuze's masterwork that is accessible and indeed encouraging to advanced students and to philosophers new to Deleuze, yet which can constitute a valuable aid to research for more committed readers of Deleuze. Journal of Nietzsche Studies

About James Williams

James Williams is Professor of European Philosophy at the University of Dundee. He has published widely on Deleuze, including Gilles Deleuze's Logic of Sense: a Critical Introduction and Guide (Edinburgh University Press, 2008), The Transversal Thought of Gilles Deleuze: Encounters and Influences (Manchester: Clinamen, 2005) and Gilles Deleuze's Difference and Repetition: a Critical Introduction and Guide (Edinburgh University Press, 2003)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction p1; a) Deleuze's master-work p1; b) Deleuzian principles p3; c) Virtual and actual p6; d) Difference and repetition p9; e) Passive syntheses p11; f) Dialectics p 15; g) Reading Difference and Repetition p20; 2. Outside Identity, Generality and Law p23; a) The simulacrum p 23; b) Repetition and generality p29; c) Repetition and law p32; d) Repetition and concepts p35; e) Tragedy p42; f) Freud and masks p44; g)Signs and the essence of repetition p48; 3. Difference p54; a) Difference in itself p54; b) Aristotle p58; c) Deleuze's ontology p62; d) Hegel and Leibniz p68; e) Difference as experiment and experience p74; f) Plato p79; 4. Repetition p84; a) Repetition for itself p84; b) First synthesis of time p86; c) Second synthesis of time p93; d) Third synthesis of time p98; e) Freud and passive syntheses p105; 5. Against Common Sense p111; a) The image of thought p111; b) Good will p113; c) Kant, Descartes and recognition p115; d) Representation p118; e) Error and illusion p123; f) Propositions and sense p125; g) Questions p128; h) Dialectics, problems and Ideas p130; i) Learning p134; 6. What is an Idea? P138; a) The problem of determination p138; b) Ideas as multiplicities p143; c) Necessity of Ideas p150; d) How to act p157; e) Determination and groundlessness p162; 7. What is reality? P166; a) Science and significance p166; b) Explanation p169; c) Depth and space p172; d) Intensity p179; e) The individual p186; f) Individuals and species p190; 8. Conclusion. Beyond the self p195; a) Reality p195; b) The self and the subject p200; c) Others p 205; Bibliography.

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GOR005417215
9780748618187
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Gilles Deleuze's Difference and Repetition: A Critical Introduction and Guide by James Williams
James Williams
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Edinburgh University Press
20031002
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