1st Edition

The Deleuzian Mind

Edited By Henry Somers-Hall, Jeffrey A. Bell Copyright 2025
586 Pages
by Routledge

586 Pages
by Routledge

Gilles Deleuze was one of the most influential philosophers of the second half of the twentieth century. As with other French philosophers of his generation, such as Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, Deleuze’s work and his collaboration with Félix Guattari has also had huge influence in other disciplines, particularly literature, film studies, architecture, and science and mathematics. The... Read more

Notes on Contributors

List of Abbreviations

Introduction Jeffrey A. Bell and Henry Somers-Hall

Part 1: Situating Deleuze

1. Deleuze and Universitaire Alan Schrift

2. An Extremely Populous Solitude: Deleuze with Guattari Edward Thornton

3. Gilles Deleuze: A Life and Works Frida Beckman

Part 2: A New History of Philosophy. Deleuze’s Precursors

4. A Kind of Science Fiction: Deleuze and Hume Russell Ford

5. Virtual Encounters: The Making and Manifestations of Deleuze’s Bergsonism Craig Lundy

6. Deleuze and Spinoza Jack Stetter

7. Deleuze’s Nietzsche: Will to Power and Eternal Return Julie Van der Wielen

Part 3: Encounters Critical and Clinical

8. Deleuze and Kant Marc Rölli

9. Deleuze and Hegel Bruce Baugh

10. Deleuze, Lacan, and Sadomasochism Janell Watson

11. Deleuze and Merleau-Ponty, Readers of Proust Judith Wambacq

12. From Ontological Difference to Difference in Itself: Deleuze and Heidegger Gavin Rae

13. The Logic of Sense: Deleuze, Hyppolite and the Speculative Proposition Joe Hughes

14. Deleuze and Analytic Philosophy; or, Empirical Reasoning and the Legacy of Hume Jeffrey A. Bell

15. ‘Singular Without Being Individual’: Simondon, Deleuze, and the problem of individuation Daniela Voss

16. Thinking without Domination: (Radical) Immanence between Deleuze and Laruelle Eckardt Lindner

Part 4: The Early Philosophy. A Logic of Sense

17. Sartre, Deleuze, and the Transcendental Field Henry Somers-Hall

18. Forget the Virtual, What Matters is Intensity: Situating Intensity in Deleuze’s Early Thought Nathan Widder

19. The Deleuzian Concept of Other Koichiro Kokubun

20. Statification John Protevi

21. Deleuze’s Philosophy of Action Sean Bowden

22. The Roaring of the Sea, the White Wall, and the Lightning Bolt: Introduction to Deleuze’s Ethics of the Univocity of Being Leonard Lawlor

Part 5: The Later Philosophy. The Wasp and the Orchid

23. A Thousand Plateaus: Book as Plane Brent Adkins

24. Two Regimes of Thought Miguel de Beistegui

25. Observations on Observation: Perspective in Deleuze Mary Beth Mader

26. Deleuze on Time Daniel W. Smith

Part 6: Art and Literature

27. The Clinic and the Waiting Room: Deleuze on Literature Audrey Wasser

28. Cinematic Semiotic Excess: A Deleuzian Final Cut of All the Signs in the World David Deamer

29. ‘The cosmic artisan: a homemade atomic bomb’: The Sublime Aesthetics of Deleuze and Guattari Stephen Zepke

30. Deleuze and Music Iain Campbell

Part 7: Deleuze, Maths and Science

31. Deleuze and Lautman Simon Duffy

32. From Bullshit to Gold: Unearthing Deleuze’s Philosophy of Logical Validity Corry Shores

33. Gilles Deleuze and New Materialism: Rethinking Subjectivity and Language After the Linguistic Turn Rick Dolphijn

Part 8: Deleuze and Politics

34. Democracy and Institution in Deleuze’s Early Political Philosophy Paul Patton

35. Parallel Lines: Deleuze, Spinoza, and Marx Jason Read

36. Mind, Hell, Immanence, Sex: The Problem of Mind Claire Colebrook

37. Deleuzian Concepts for Ex-colonialism Simone Bignall

38. A.D. 1972 – A.D. 1980: How Do You Rescue the Market from Capital Eugene Holland.

Index

Biography

Jeffrey A. Bell holds the C. Howard Nichols Professorship at Southeastern Louisiana University, USA. His books include An Inquiry into Analytic-Continental Metaphysics, Towards a Critical Existentialism, Philosophy at the Edge of Chaos and Deleuze’s Hume: Philosophy, Culture and the Scottish Enlightenment. Bell has also co-edited Deleuze and History with Claire Colebrook, Beyond the Analytic-Continental Divide with Paul Livingston and Andrew Cutrofello and A Thousand Plateaus and Philosophy with Henry Somers-Hall and James Williams.

Henry Somers-Hall is a professor of philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. He has written extensively on Gilles Deleuze and the broader twentieth century French philosophical tradition. He is the author of Hegel, Deleuze and the Critique of Representation (2012), Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition (2013) and Judgement and Sense in Modern French Philosophy (2022), and co-editor of the Cambridge Companion to Deleuze (2012) and A Thousand Plateaus and Philosophy (2018).