Essays on Deleuze

Daniel W. Smith is Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University and one of the world's leading commentators on Deleuze. He has translated his work, edited collections and written numerous articles on Deleuze. Daniel W. Smith is Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University and one of the world's leading commentators on Deleuze. He has translated his work, edited collections and written numerous articles on Deleuze. He is the author of Essays on Deleuze (EUP, 2012) and co-editor of Between Deleuze and Foucault (EUP, 2016), The Cambridge Companion to Deleuze (2012), Gilles Deleuze: Image and Text (2009), Deleuze and Ethics (EUP, 2011) and Deleuze and Time (EUP, 2023).

• Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Preface; I. Deleuze and the History of Philosophy; 1. Plato; The Concept of the Simulacrum: Deleuze and the Overturning of Platonism; 2. Univocity; The Doctrine of Univocity: Deleuze’s Ontology of Immanence; 3. Leibniz; Deleuze on Leibniz: Difference, Continuity, and the Calculus; 4. Hegel; Deleuze, Hegel, and the Post-Kantian Tradition; 5. Pre- and Post-Kantianism; Logic and Existence: Deleuze on the Conditions of the Real; II. Deleuze’s Philosophical System; 6. Aesthetics; Deleuze’s Theory of Sensation: Overcoming the Kantian Duality; 7. Dialectics; Deleuze, Kant, and the Theory of Immanent Ideas; 8. Analytics; Concepts, Time, and Truth; 9. Ethics; The Place of Ethics in Deleuze’s Philosophy: Three Questions of Immanence; 10. Politics; Flow, Code, and Stock: A Note on Deleuze’s Political Philosophy; III. Five Deleuzian Concepts; 11. Desire; Deleuze and the Question of Desire: Toward an Immanent Theory of Ethics; 12. Life; “A Life of Pure Immanence”: Deleuze’s “Critique et clinique” Project; 13. Sensation; Deleuze on Bacon: Three Conceptual Trajectories in “The Logic of Sensation”; 14. The New ; The Conditions of the New; 15. The Open; The Idea of the Open: Bergson’s Three Theses on Movement; IV. Deleuze and Contemporary Philosophy; 16. Jacques Derrida, Deleuze and Derrida, Immanence and Transcendence: Two Directions in Recent French Thought; 17. Alain Badiou, Mathematics and the Theory of Multiplicities: Deleuze and Badiou Revisited; 18. Jacques Lacan, The Inverse Side of the Structure: Žižek on Deleuze on Lacan; 19. Pierre Klossowski, Klossowski’s Reading of Nietzsche: Impulses, Phantasms, Simulacra, Stereotypes; 20. Paul Patton, Deleuze and the Liberal Tradition: Normativity, Freedom, and Judgment; Bibliography; Notes; Index.

For many years now Daniel Smith’s work has led us through Deleuze’s philosophy with an unmatched clarity. It is thanks to him that the many historical connections of that philosophy have been grasped in their full rigour and depth. No researcher on Deleuze’s philosophy can pass this work by. No reader can fail to benefit from an engagement with Smith’s groundbreaking interpretation.