Gilles Deleuze: the Intensive Reduction

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Brief Description: An important collection of essays providing a comprehensive overview of the thought of Gilles Deleuze, one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Table of Contents: Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction Constantin V. Boundas -- Part I. Deleuze and Philosophy -- 1. Deleuze and the Question of Ontology / Veronique Bergen -- 2. The 'Future' of Deleuze: An Unfinished Project / Zsuzsa Baross -- 3. The New Harmony / Ronald Bogue -- 4. The 'New Whitehead': An Ontology of the 'Virtual' in Whitehead's Metaphysics / Keith Robinson -- Part II. Schizoanalysis and Lacan -- 5. On the Idea of a Critique of Pure Practical Reason in Kant, Lacan, and Deleuze / Andrew Cutrofello -- 6. What if the Law is Written in a Porno Book? Deterritorializing Lacan, De-Oedipalizing Deleuze and Guattari / Shannon Winnubst -- 7. From the Surface to the Depths: On the Transition from Logic of Sense to Anti-Oedipus / Daniel W. Smith -- Part III. Deleuze and the Arts -- 8. Deleuze, Philosophy, and the Materiality of Painting / Darren Ambrose -- 9. Deleuze and Merleau-Ponty: Aesthetics of Difference / Henry Somers-Hall -- 10. From the Death of the Author to the Disappearance of the Reader / Bruce Baugh -- Part IV. Deleuze: The Ethical and the Political -- 11. Affirmation versus Vulnerability: On Contemporary Ethical Debates / Rosi Braidotti -- 12. From First Sparks to Local Clashes: Which Politics Today? / Philippe Mengue -- 13. Deleuze's Practical Philosophy / Paul Patton -- 14. Gilles Deleuze's Politics: From Marxism to the Missing People / Alain Beaulieu -- 15. Affirmative Nomadology and the War Machine / Eugene W. Holland -- 16. Deleuze and 'pairing at a distance' / Arnaud Villani -- Index. Contributor Bio:  Boundas, Constantin V Constantin V. Boundas is Professor of Philosophy at Trent University, Canada. He is the editor of The Deleuze Reader (Columbia UP, 1993) and, with Dorothea Olkowski, The Theater of Philosophy: Critical Essays onGilles Deleuze(Routledge, 1994). He is also the translator of Deleuze's The Logic of Sense (Continuum, 2002) and Empiricism and Subjectivity (Columbia UP, 1991).