Gilles Deleuze's Empiricism and Subjectivity

Jon Roffe teaches philosophy at the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy. He is the author of Gilles Deleuze’s Empiricism and Subjectivity (Edinburgh University Press, 2017), Abstract Market Theory (Palgrave, 2015) and Badiou’s Deleuze (Acumen 2012). He is the co-author of Deleuze’s Philosophical Lineage II (Edinburgh University Press, 2019) and Deleuze’s Philosophical Lineage (Edinburgh University Press, 2009), Practising with Deleuze (Edinburgh University Press, 2017) and Lacan Deleuze Badiou (Edinburgh University Press, 2013), and co-editor of a number of volumes on 20th-century French thought.

Among the ranks of philosophical debuts, Gilles Deleuze’s Empiricism and Subjectivity is surely one of the oddest – a book, at once unassuming and brilliant, on David Hume. The strangeness of this book has always rewarded those who are willing to muster rigor and indulge idiosyncrasy, and it’s in this context that Jon Roffe’s critical introduction is so good. Roffe is among the very few deft enough to convey the peculiar fusion of philosophical tastes that bring Deleuze and Hume together.

• AcknowledgementsNote on ReferencesPreface 1. Beyond Kant’s Hume2. Belief and Theoretical Reason3. The Moral World4. The Madness of Thought and the Delirium of Practical Reason5. Subjectivity6. The Singularity of Empiricism7. A Kantian HumeIndex