Continuity and Event in Leibniz and Deleuze

Hamed Movahedi is a Lecturer and Postdoctoral Fellow at McGill University and a Postdoctoral Fellow at Pennsylvania State University. His research centers on the metaphysics of genesis and the new across social, artistic and biological fields. He has published articles in Continental Philosophy Review, Deleuze and Guattari Studies, Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, Philosophy Today, Parrhesia, and Dialogue.

Mohavedi’s book is not only a groundbreaking analysis of Deleuze’s reading of Leibniz but is an original work of philosophy in its own right, proposing a novel concept of “divergent continuity” that opens up new directions for the philosophy of the future. A masterful tour de force.

• AcknowledgmentList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Problem of ContinuityContinuity of Nature, Nature of ContinuityPart I: Continuity qua Fold: The FoldCHAPTER 1: Proliferation of Folds: A Baroque Image1.1 The New: Impossibility of the Repetition of Past; The Repetition of an Impossible Past1.2 The Fold, And, A Baroque Leibniz1.3 The Baroque Proliferation of Folds1.3.1 The Folds of Inorganic Matter1.3.2 The Organic Folds of Matter1.3.3 Birth, And, Death1.3.4 Leibniz’s Law of Continuity1.4 Second Floor of the Baroque HouseCHAPTER 2: A Metaphysical Ten(or)sion: From Inflection to Inclusion2.1 Leibniz’s Universe: An Infinite Interlaced Fabric2.2 The Folds in the Soul: From Inflection to Inclusion2.3 The Metaphysical TensionCHAPTER 3: Proliferation of Events: Affirmation of Bifurcation And Divergent Continuity3.1 Towards a Logic of Events3.2 Substance and Unity in a World-Event3.3 Genesis of Worlds: Compossibility and Incompossibility3.4 Affirmation of Bifurcation and Divergence3.5 Complication of Divergent Series: The ChaosmosCHAPTER 4: Constellation of Continuity as Logic: Leibniz, Peirce, Blanchot4.1 Reconcilability of Principles: The Identity of Indiscernibles and Continuity4.2 Incarnation in a Body4.3 Actualization and Realization4.4 Event: A Deleuzian Dialogue with Blanchot and PeircePart II: Genesis and Continuity: Difference and RepetitionCHAPTER 5: Ideas and Divergent Continuity5.1 Transcendental Field5.2 Problematization of Ontology5.3 Ideality of the Virtual5.4 Biological Idea5.5 Proliferation of Continuity: Anger Face and Love Face of IdeasCHAPTER 6: Torsional Continuity: Dramatization and Poeticization of Ideas6.1 Ideas of Society6.2 Ideas of Art6.2.1 Erewhon: The Non-Localizable Locus of the Artist6.3 Dramatizing the Obscure Ideas6.4 Poeticization: The Poeticity of IdeasCHAPTER 7: Intensive Continuity7.1 The Critical and Creative Faces of Ideas: Art and the Political7.2 Intensity qua “Who” of Expression7.3 Intensive Continuity: A Leibnizian Image, Intensities Enveloping and Enveloped7.4 Torsional Continuity: Intensities and Ideas7.5 An Embryonic HeteroversePart III: Genesis of Language and Continuity: Logic of SenseCHAPTER 8: Logic of Sense and Continuity8.1 Philosophizing at the Surface: The Stoic Incorporeals8.2 Sense: The Fourth Dimension and the Possibility of Language8.3 Inherent Dualities and Paradoxes of the Structure8.4 The Mobile Decentered Paradoxical ElementChapter 9: Nonsense, Event, Continuity9.1 Problematization of Series9.2 Nonsense and Static Genesis9.3 Continuity, Aion, Chronos9.4 Dedekind Cut, Point-Fold, False-Divergent Continuity9.5 Ethics of the Event, Counter-Actualization of the Actor-Dancer9.6 Univocity, Poeticity, ContinuityConclusion: Heteropoietic ContinuityContinuity and Genesis: Four ContinuitiesContinuity, Ethics, Dramas, and PoeticityContinuity, Event, Linguistic ActualizationAppendix: Continuity and the History of Calculus: Leibniz’s Predecessors Aristotle’s Conception of ContinuityCalculus and its Historical DevelopmentBaroque Curves: ArchimedesBaroque Motions: Galileo and KeplerCalculus and AlgebraLeibniz and the Development of CalculusReferences