Deleuze's Hume

Jeffrey A. Bell is Professor of Philosophy at Southeastern Louisiana University. He has recently been a Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor in Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London, during which time much of this book was written. He is the author of numerous books and articles on Deleuze and Deleuze and Guattari, including Deleuze and Guattari's What is Philosophy?: A Critical Introduction and Guide (Edinburgh University Press, 2016), Deleuze’s Hume (Edinburgh University Press, 2008), Philosophy at the Edge of Chaos (University of Toronto Press, 2006) and The Problem of Difference: Phenomenology and Poststructuralism (University of Toronto Press, 1998). Bell is co-editor with Paul Livingston and Andrew Cutrofello of Beyond the Analytic–Continental Divide: Pluralist Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century (Routledge, 2015) and with Claire Colebrook of Deleuze and History (Edinburgh University Press, 2009).

• Introduction; 1. Staging the Mind: From Multiplicity to Belief; 2. Becoming Who We Are; 3. The Time of our Life: Historical Ontology and Creative Events; 4. Becoming Civil: History and the Discipline of Institutions; 5. Creating Culture: The Case of the Scottish Enlightenment; 6. Beyond Belief: Deleuze's Hume and the Fear of Politics; Bibliography; Index.

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