Thinking Between Deleuze and Kant A Strange Encounter

by Willatt, Edward; Lee, Matt

• ISBN13: 9781441186416
• ISBN10: 1441186417
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-01-05
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

In the wake of much previous work on Gilles Deleuze's relations to other thinkers (including Bergson, Spinoza and Leibniz), his relation to Kant is now of great and active interest and a thriving area of research. In the context of the wider debate between 'naturalism' and 'transcendental philosophy', the implicit dispute between Deleuze's 'transcendental empiricism' and Kant's 'transcendental idealism' is of prime philosophical concern. Bringing together the work of international experts from both Deleuze scholarship and Kant scholarship, Thinking Between Deleuze and Kant addresses explicitly the varied and various connections between these two great European philosophers, providing key material for understanding the central philosophical problems in the wider 'naturalism/ transcendental philosophy' debate. The book reflects an area of great current interest in Deleuze Studies and initiates an ongoing interest in Deleuze within Kant scholarship. The contributors are Mick Bowles, Levi R. Bryant, Patricia Farrell, Christian Kerslake, Matt Lee, Michael J. Olson, Henry Somers-Hall and Edward Willatt. >

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors Note on Translations and Abbreviations Used Editorial Introduction 1. The Philosopher-monkey: Learning and the Discordant Harmony of the Faculties, Patricia Farrell  (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)2. Deleuze's Transcendental Empiricism: Notes Towards a Transcendental Materialism, Levi R. Bryant (Collin College, Frisco, USA)3. Levelling the levels, Matt Lee (University of Greenwich, UK)4. The Genesis of Cognition: Deleuze as a Reader of Kant, Edward Willatt (University of Greenwich, UK)5. The Nature of Productive Force: Kant, Spinoza and Deleuze, Mick Bowles (University of Greenwich, UK)6. Deleuze's 'Reconstruction of Reason': From Leibniz and Kant to Difference and Repetition, Christian Kerslake (Middlesex University, UK)7. Transcendental Illusion and Antinomy in Kant and Deleuze, Henry Somers-Hall (University of Warwick, UK)8. Transcendental Idealism, Deleuze and Guattari, and the Metaphysics of Objects, Michael J. Olson (Villanova University, USA)Bibliography Index