Overview
Throughout Deleuze's work, we find two opposing characterisations of Leibniz. On the one hand, Deleuze presents Leibniz as a conservative theologian committed to justifying the order and harmony of a God-governed world. On the other, Leibniz appears as a revolutionary thinker credited with 'the most insane concept creation we have ever witnessed in philosophy'. Alex Tissandier traces Leibniz's ambiguous status for Deleuze to explain two key ideas in Deleuze's own philosophy: a concept of difference that is not reducible to a relation of contradiction and an account of the genesis of the world that does not presuppose the structure of representation.
Full Product Details
Author: Alex Tissandier
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 9781474417747
ISBN 10: 1474417744
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 30 June 2018
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Leibniz's influence on Deleuze has long been recognised, but rarely analysed, and Tissandier's much needed book provides an unparalleled analysis of the development of Deleuze's relationship to him. Drawing together and reconstructing readings from across Deleuze's career, Tissandier provides a nuanced, comprehensive account of Deleuze's increasingly radical reading of Leibniz, from the early, fragmentary readings of Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza and Difference and Repetition to the mature thought of the Fold. Affirming Divergence is a deep, rigorous analysis that affirms the centrality of Leibniz for Deleuze's thought, providing a major contribution to our understanding of Deleuze's relationship to the history of philosophy, and to our understanding of his philosophy itself.-- ""Dr. Henry Somers-Hall, University of London""
"Leibniz's influence on Deleuze has long been recognised, but rarely analysed, and Tissandier's much needed book provides an unparalleled analysis of the development of Deleuze's relationship to him. Drawing together and reconstructing readings from across Deleuze's career, Tissandier provides a nuanced, comprehensive account of Deleuze's increasingly radical reading of Leibniz, from the early, fragmentary readings of Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza and Difference and Repetition to the mature thought of the Fold. Affirming Divergence is a deep, rigorous analysis that affirms the centrality of Leibniz for Deleuze's thought, providing a major contribution to our understanding of Deleuze's relationship to the history of philosophy, and to our understanding of his philosophy itself.-- ""Dr. Henry Somers-Hall, University of London"""
Author Information
Alex Tissandier completed a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Warwick in 2014 and is now an independent scholar.
