Gilles Deleuze

Constantin V. Boundas is Professor of Philosophy at Trent University, Canada. He is the editor of The Deleuze Reader (Columbia UP, 1993) and, with Dorothea Olkowski, The Theater of Philosophy: Critical Essays on Gilles Deleuze (Routledge, 1994). He is also the translator of Deleuze's The Logic of Sense (Continuum, 2002) and Empiricism and Subjectivity (Columbia UP, 1991).

• Introduction; Part I: Deleuze and Philosophy; 1. Deleuze and the Question of Ontology, Veronique Bergen (University of Paris VIII, France); 2. The 'Future' of Deleuze: An Unfinished Project, Zsuzsa Baross (Trent University, Canada); 3. Revisiting Bergsonism, Leonard Lawlor (University of Memphis, USA); 4. The New Harmony, Ronald Bogue (University of Georgia, USA); 5. The 'New Whitehead'?: An Ontology of the 'Virtual' in Process and Reality, Keith Robinson (Davenport University, USA); Part II: Schizoanalysis; 6. On the Idea of a Critique of Pure Practical Reason in Kant, Lacan and Deleuze, Andrew Cutrofello (Loyola University Chicago, USA); 7. What if the Law is Written in a Porno Book? Deterritorializing Lacan, De-Oedipalizing Deleuze and Guattari, Shannon Winnubst (Southwestern University, USA); 8. From the Surface to the Depths: On the Transition from Logic of Sense to Anti-Oedipus, Daniel W. Smith (Purdue University, USA); Part III: Literature and the Arts; 9. The Affect of the Image, Anne Sauvagnargues (Ecole Normale Superieure, France); 10. Sense and Sensibility: The Origin of the Work of Art, Dorothea E. Olkowski (University of Colorado, USA); 11. Deleuze, Philosophy and the Materiality of Painting, Darren Ambrose (University of Warwick, UK); 12. Let's Get Lost: From the Death of the Author to the Disappearance of the Reader, Bruce Baugh (University College of the Cariboo, Canada); Part IV: The Ethical and the Political; 13. Affirmation versus Vulnerability: On Contemporary Ethical Debates, Rosi Braidotti (Utrecht University, the Netherlands); 14. What Politics Today?, Philippe Mengue (College International de Philosophie, Paris, France); 15. Deleuze's Practical Philosophy, Paul Patton (University of New South Wales, Australia); 16. Gilles Deleuze's Politics: From Marxism to the Missing People, Alain Beaulieu (University of Sudbury, Canada); 17. Affirmative Nomdaology and War Machine, Eugene Holland (Ohio State University, USA); 18. Deleuze's 'Pairing at a Distance', Arnaud Villani (Lycee Massena, Nice, France); Bibliography; List of Contributors; Index.

"A simply first-rate collection, notable for the sheer excellence of the essays, the wide range of topics covered, and the distinction of its contributors. Boundas has once again made a signal contribution to Deleuze studies." - Professor Kenneth Surin, Duke University, USA