Overview

Deleuze’s concept of ‘becoming’ provides the key to his notoriously complex metaphysics, yet it has not been systematized until now. Bankston tracks the concept of becoming and its underlying temporal processes across Deleuze’s writings, arguing that expressions of becoming(s) appear in two modes of temporality: an appropriation of Nietzsche’s eternal return (the becoming of the event), and Bergsonian duration (the becoming of sensation). Overturning the criticisms launched by Žižek and Badiou, with conceptual encounters between Bergson, Nietzsche, Leibniz, Borges, Klossowski, and Proust, the newly charted concept of double becoming provides a roadmap to the totality of Deleuze’s philosophy. Bankston systematizes Deleuze’s multi-mirrored universe where form and content infinitely refract in a vital kaleidoscope of becoming.

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Author:   Samantha Bankston (Sierra Nevada College, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Weight:   0.503kg
ISBN:  

9781474233569

ISBN 10:   1474233562
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   16 November 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONE: THE CONCEPTUAL HISTORY OF BECOMING IN DELEUZE Becoming-Bergson Change A Rejection of Hegel’s Concept of Becoming Mapping Bergsonian Duration onto Becoming Becoming and Aesthetic Production Where Absolute Becoming Splits from Sensory Becoming: Memory Sensory Becoming and Molecular Memory Becoming-Nietzsche The Innocence of Becoming The Selectivity of Becoming Absolute Becoming and Ontological Forgetting Aion and the Eternal Return CHAPTER TWO: QUASI-CAUSALITY Double Causality in Deleuze Deleuze, Whitehead, and Kant on Final Causality Immanent Causation in The Logic of Sense Žižek and the Critique of Dualist Ontology Absolute Becoming and Event: Surface Sensory Becoming and Bodies: Depth The Gateway of the Moment and the Quasi-Cause Instantaneous Time and Nomadology CHAPTER THREE: LINES AND BECOMING The Abstract Line The Northern Line The Line-Bloc The Line of Flight Deleuze’s Broken Line: The Rhizome CHAPTER FOUR: TIME AND THE ETERNAL RETURN Ritornello: The Eternal Return and the Pure Past The Milieu and the Ritornello The Time Crystal as Ritornello The Paradox of the Untimely Differentiation and the Moment: “Once […]” Integration and the Labyrinth: “[…] and for All” Resolution to the Paradox CHAPTER FIVE: THE BECOMING OF GILLES DELEUZE Re-Appropriation and the Concept of Becoming: Masks in Deleuze’s Works The Becoming of Duration The Becoming of the Eternal Return The Becoming of the Moment Conceptual Lines and the Defeat of Dualist Ontology BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

Reviews

Although `becoming' is one of the fundamental concepts in Deleuze's philosophy, Deleuze and Becoming is the first book to provide a systematic and detailed analysis of the new components Deleuze's assigns to this ancient notion. Samantha Bankston shows how the concept evolved considerably throughout Deleuze's career, and argues that it received its most profound expression in Deleuze's readings of two `temporal logics': Bergson's duration and Nietzsche's eternal return. Along the way, Bankston provides insightful appraisals of various thinkers (Leibniz, Bachelard, Zizek, Badiou) and writers (Borges, Klossowski, Proust) that influenced or engaged with Deleuze's work. Bankston's writing is admirably lucid, and Deleuze and Becoming is destined to become a standard reference work on one of Deleuze's most complex concepts. -- Daniel W. Smith, Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University, USA

Author Information

Samantha Bankston has published on continental philosophy and art and translated seminars given by Gilles Deleuze, is the translator of Anne Sauvagnargues' book, Deleuze and Art (Bloomsbury, 2013), and the author of the forthcoming book, Deleuze and Žižek.

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