Variations: The Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze

Jean-Clet Martin is a philosopher. He is the author of several books that relate to the philosophy of aesthetics and science. Constantin V. Boundas is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Trent University, Canada. He is an editor and translator of the work of Gilles Deleuze, including an editor of Gilles Deleuze's The Logic of Sense (Columbia University Press, 1991) and translator of Gilles Deleuze's Empiricism and Subjectivity (Columbia University Press, 1991). Susan Dyrkton has worked with Constantin V. Boundas for over 20 years. This translation is their first truly collaborative effort.

Boundas and Dyrkton have rendered an invaluable service by opening access to Jean-Clet Martin's important response to the work of Deleuze, a response that combines both philosophical rigor and poetic elegance with an insistence on demonstrating and relaying the conceptual multiplicity at the heart of Deleuzian philosophy, rather than merely commenting on it. -- Eugene W. Holland, Ohio State University Boundas and Dyrkton have rendered an invaluable service by opening access to Jean-Clet Martin's important response to the work of Deleuze, a response that combines both philosophical rigor and poetic elegance with an insistence on demonstrating and relaying the conceptual multiplicity at the heart of Deleuzian philosophy, rather than merely commenting on it.

• Letter-Preface by Gilles Deleuze; Preamble; First Variation: Ethics and Aesthetics; 1. Battlefield; 2. Transcendental Empiricism; 3. Nomadology; Second Variation: Three Poetic Formulas for Nomadic Distribution; 4. Time out of Joint; 5. The Dicethrow; 6. 'The Garden of Forking Paths'; Third Variation: Multiplicities; 7. The Image of Thought; 8. Variations; 9. Poetics of Multiplicities; Fourth Variation: Malcolm Lowry or the Manifesto of Things; 10. The March toward Death; 11. Mannerisms; 12. For a Microphysics of Multiplicities; Postface to the Anglo-American Edition; Notes; Works by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari; Works Quoted in the Book; Index.