Between Deleuze and Derrida

Editors: Paul Patton is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. John Protevi is Assistant Professor in the Department of French Studies at Louisiana State University, USA.

"a fascinating study of the similarities and differences between the two philosophers and in particular the ethical and political threads underlying their connection. "-Critical Horizons, September 2003

• Introduction 1. Future Politics 2. Living a time out of joint 3. Deleuze and Derrida, Immanence and Transcendence: two directions in recent French thought 4. The beginnings of thought: the fundamental experience in Derrida and Deleuze 5. Ontology and Logography: the pharmacy, plato and the simulacrum 6. Algebras, Geometries, and Topologies of the Fold: Deleuze, Derrida and Quasi-Mathematical Thinking (with Leibniz and Mallarme) 7. The Philosopher and the Writer: a question of style 8. Active habits and passive events or Bartleby 9. Beyond Hermeneutics: Deleuze, Derrida and contemporary theory 10. Language and persecution 11. Love