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Badiou's Deleuze

by (author) Jon Roffe

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Mar 2012
Category
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780773540088
    Publish Date
    Mar 2012
    List Price
    $29.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780773540071
    Publish Date
    Mar 2012
    List Price
    $95.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773594685
    Publish Date
    Jan 2012

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Badiou's Deleuze presents the first thorough analysis of one of the most significant encounters in contemporary thought: Alain Badiou's interpretation and rejection of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. Badiou's reading of Deleuze is largely laid out in his provocative book, Deleuze: The Clamor of Being. Badiou's Deleuze presents a detailed examination of Badiou's reading and argues that, while it fails to do justice to the Deleuzean project, it invites us to reconsider and reassess Deleuze's power to address the ultimate concerns of philosophy. Badiou's Deleuze analyses the differing metaphysics of two of the most influential recent continental philosophers, whose divergent views have helped shape much contemporary thought.

About the author

Jon Roffe lectures at the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy. He is a founding editor of the journal, Parrhesia.

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Editorial Reviews

"This book will impress both partisans of Deleuze and Badiou with its scholarship and detailed approach. While it defends Deleuze against Badiou's interpretation, the provocative force of Badiou's critique motivates a deep and thorough re-reading of core Deleuzean ideas concerning time, the virtual, multiplicity, chance and subjectivity. The book places Roffe amongst the handful or so of best English-Language commentators on Deleuze." Jack Reynolds, La Trobe University

"Substantial and highly original, this is an extremely topical and relevant work, which essentially concerns the direction modern philosophy should be taking ... a tour de force." Daniel W. Smith, Purdue University

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