Gilles Deleuze and the Philosophy of Sense

Nathan Widder is Professor of Political Theory at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of Geneaologies of Difference, Reflections on Time and Politics, and Political Theory After Deleuze.

"Marking the culmination of several decades of research by a foremost scholar of Deleuze, this book advances a bold thesis: that Deleuze's pre-Guattari philosophy is a systematic philosophy of sense. There is so much to learn from this book, for both new readers of Deleuze and seasoned experts." — Craig Lundy, London Metropolitan University

• Preface and Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Part I 1. Toward an Ontology of Sense 2. Hegelian Sense 3. Hume: Relations Must Be External to Terms 4. Bergson: Difference Must Be Internal Difference 5. Nietzsche: Sense and Force 6. Spinoza and Univocal Expression Interlude: Works on Proust and Sacher-Masoch Part II 7. Difference and Repetition 8. Difference in Itself 9. Repetition for Itself 10. Thought, Ideas, and the Actualization of the Virtual 11. Dramatization, Individuation, and the Incarnation of Intensity 12. From the Depths to the Surface Part III 13. The Logic of Sense 14. Pure Becoming and Incorporeal Surfaces: Reversing Platonism 15. Sense and the Proposition: Paradoxes, Structure, and Static Genesis 16. Counter-Effectuation, Perversion, and the Ethics of the Event 17. From the Depth of Bodies to the Surface of Thought: Dynamic Genesis 18. From The Logic of Sense to Anti-Oedipus Epilogue: From Structure to Machine Notes Bibliography Index