Gilles Deleuze's Philosophy of Time

James Williams is Professor of European Philosophy at the University of Dundee. He has published widely on Deleuze, including Gilles Deleuze's Logic of Sense: a Critical Introduction and Guide (Edinburgh University Press, 2008), The Transversal Thought of Gilles Deleuze: Encounters and Influences (Manchester: Clinamen, 2005) and Gilles Deleuze's Difference and Repetition: a Critical Introduction and Guide (Edinburgh University Press, 2003)

• Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. The First Synthesis of Time; 3. The Second Synthesis of Time; 4. The Third Synthesis of Time; 5. Time and eternal return; 6. Time in Logic of Sense; 7. Conclusion: the place of film in Deleuze's philosophy of time; Endnotes; Bibliography; Index.

Williams offers us a remarkable book -- not only has he produced a Critical Introduction to the famous (and famously difficult) three syntheses of time, he has also invested in its implications to show us its centrality as a 'process philosophy of time'. This book renews the meaning of Deleuze's early philosophy and invites the reader to rethink its relation to the promise of a new future in his later work with Guattari. -- Eric Alliez, Professor of Contemporary French Philosophy, Kingston University Williams offers us a remarkable book -- not only has he produced a Critical Introduction to the famous (and famously difficult) three syntheses of time, he has also invested in its implications to show us its centrality as a 'process philosophy of time'. This book renews the meaning of Deleuze's early philosophy and invites the reader to rethink its relation to the promise of a new future in his later work with Guattari.