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Hamed Movahedi reconstructs a Deleuzian concept of continuity and event through comparative readings of The Fold, Difference and Repetition and Logic of Sense. His analysis of The Fold in dialogue with Leibniz opens a new conceptual space for continuity, one that entails both irreducible heterogeneity and ontological inseparability. This concept, which challenges conventional notions of continuity and discontinuity, discloses its implicit yet decisive presence in Deleuze's philosophy of genesis in Difference and Repetition and the genesis of language in Logic of Sense. Deleuze's story of genesis, preoccupied with the conditions of formation across various fields, is recounted in terms of continuity, which turns out to be a poetics, a prelude to art and politics.

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Event and Continuity in Leibniz and Deleuze: Poetics of the Fold is a tour de force that ranges through philosophy, mathematics, art, and politics. Movahedi compellingly shows how the unthematized concept of continuity is the key that unlocks not only Deleuze's reading of Leibniz but also Difference and Repetition and The Logic of Sense.--Brent Adkins, Professor of Philosophy, Roanoke College

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Hamed Movahedi is a Lecturer and Postdoctoral Fellow at McGill University and a Postdoctoral Fellow at Pennsylvania State University. His research centers on the metaphysics of genesis and the new across social, artistic and biological fields. He has published articles in Continental Philosophy Review, Deleuze and Guattari Studies, Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, Philosophy Today, Parrhesia, and Dialogue.

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