History and Becoming

Craig Lundy is a Reader in Social and Political Thought at London Metropolitan University. He is the author of Deleuze's Bergsonism (2018), History and Becoming: Deleuze’s Philosophy of Creativity (2012) and co-editor with Daniela Voss of At the Edges of Thought: Deleuze and Post-Kantian Philosophy (2015), all published with Edinburgh University Press.

What is the relation between history and becoming? How is the creativity of becoming entangled with the history it either modifies or transforms? Lundy responds to such questions in this rich and lucid book. A must read for anyone who appreciates Deleuze and/or addresses the enigma of creativity.

• Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The Depths of History; Historical Intensities; Historical Depth; Towards the Future; 2. The Surfaces of History; The Logic of Surface Becoming; The History of Developmental Becoming; The Herculean Surface 3. Nomadic History; The Nomad and the State; The Phylum and the Smith; Pluralism=Monism; 4. From Prehistory to Universal History; The Prehistory of the State Apparatus; The Universalism of Capitalism; The Contingency of Universal History; The Creativity of Universal History; 5. What is History in What Is Philosophy?; Historical Concepts; Historical Planes; Historical Personae; Historiophilosophy; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.