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The Priority of Events : Deleuze's Logic of Sense /

Bowden, Sean

The Priority of Events : Deleuze's Logic of Sense / Sean Bowden. - 1 online resource (304 p.) - Plateaus - New Directions in Deleuze Studies : PLAT .

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Ontological Priority of Events in The Logic of Sense -- 1. The Stoics – Events and Sense -- 2. Leibniz – The Static Ontological and Logical Geneses -- 3. Lautman and Simondon – Problematic Ideas and Singularities -- 4. Structuralism – Structure and the Sense-Event -- 5. Psychoanalysis – Dynamic Genesis -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

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A radical reinterpretation of Deleuze's Logic of SenseSean Bowden shows you how the Deleuzian event should be understood in terms of the broader metaphysical thesis that fixed things or substances are always secondary with respect to events. He achieves this through a reconstruction of Deleuze’s relation to the history of thought from the Stoics through to Simondon, taking account of Leibniz, Lautman, structuralism and psychoanalysis along the way.Key features• Focuses on Deleuze's concept of events and highlights the philosophical richness of The Logic of Sense• Engages with material by Lautman and Simondon that has not yet been translated into English• Examines and clarifies a number of Deleuze’s most difficult philosophical concepts, including sense, problematic Ideas and intensive A radical reinterpretation of Deleuze's Logic of SenseSean Bowden shows you how the Deleuzian event should be understood in terms of the broader metaphysical thesis that fixed things or substances are always secondary with respect to events. He achieves this through a reconstruction of Deleuze’s relation to the history of thought from the Stoics through to Simondon, taking account of Leibniz, Lautman, structuralism and psychoanalysis along the way.Key featuresFocuses on Deleuze's concept of events and highlights the philosophical richness of The Logic of SenseEngages with material by Lautman and Simondon that has not yet been translated into EnglishExamines and clarifies a number of Deleuze’s most difficult philosophical concepts, including sense, problematic Ideas and intensive individuation


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In English.

9780748643592 9780748643608

10.1515/9780748643608 doi


Meaning (Philosophy).
Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY / General.

B2430.D454

121.68092