1st Edition
A Geometry of Sufficient Reason Space and Quantity in the Works of Spinoza, Leibniz, Bergson, Whitehead, and Deleuze
General Introduction
Part 1: The Ubiquity of Each Thing
Introduction
1. The Rejection of Restrictive Essence: Spinoza and Leibniz
2. Defined by Everything: Spinoza’s Reconception of Essence
3. A Mirror of the Universe: Leibniz’s Infinite Individuals
4. A Concrescence of the Universe: Whitehead’s Actual Occasions
Conclusion
Part 2: The Immanence of Space
Introduction
5. Leibniz’s Space of Individual Relations
6. Whitehead and the Immanence of Extension
Conclusion
Part 3: A New Quantification of Nature
Introduction
7. Spinoza’s Concept of Quantity: Unique, Indivisible, and Infinite
8. Leibniz’s New Quantification of Nature
9. Bergson’s Philosophy of Degrees
10. Deleuze’s Theory of Intensive Magnitude
Conclusion
General Conclusion: A Geometry of Sufficient Reason
Biography
Florian Vermeiren is a postdoctoral researcher at the Husserl-Archives: Centre for Phenomenology and Continental Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven, Belgium. He is the author of a dozen journal articles on Spinoza, Leibniz, Bergson, Whitehead, and Deleuze.
“Florian Vermeiren’s A Geometry of Sufficient Reason is impressive in both its scope and philosophical sensitivity. It’s a must-read for anyone interested in the history and philosophy of space and associated notions like quantity.”
Professor Kristin Primus, Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Spinoza Studies, UC Berkeley, USA
