This title includes 17 essays by one of the world’s leading commentators on the work of Gilles Deleuze. The articles in this volume have become frequent references for students and scholars working on Deleuze. In response to academic demand, we are now making them available in a single convenient volume. Several of the articles are touchstones in the field and a number of them have been often cited on the reception of French philosophy, especially the articles on Badiou and Derrida. It is an essential collection of essays that gets right to the heart of Deleuze’s philosophy. It includes three new pieces, two of which were written specially for this collection ‘The Open’ and ‘Concepts, Truth and Time’. It has exclusive focus on the philosophical themes of Deleuze’s work. It analyses three important concepts used by Deleuze: the new, univocity, and the clinical. It contrasts Deleuze’s work with that of four of his contemporaries: Derrida, Badiou, Lacan and Klossowski.
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‘For the last fifteen years, all of us have read one or two of Daniel Smith’s remarkable essays on Deleuze. But now, we have all of them. Finally and thankfully, we have Essays on Deleuze, a book that will become immediately essential reading for anyone interested in twentieth-century continental philosophy.’Leonard Lawlor, Sparks Professor of Philosophy, Penn State University’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.’James Williams, Professor of European Philosophy, University of Dundee– “Leonard Lawlor, Penn State University and James Williams, University of Dundee”
Daniel W. Smith’s work on the great French philosopher Gilles Deleuze (1925-95) is owed a debt by English-speaking readers of Deleuze that is difficult to overstate … ‘Essays on Deleuze’ finally gathers this work together in a single volume, presenting these essays along a more unified trajectory that both records Smith’s significant contribution to Deleuze studies while also laying foundations for new avenues of research … Throughout these essays Smith exhibits an uncanny knack for rendering intuitive some of the most obscure and vexing concepts and theses in Deleuze, to a point where the reader, upon receiving the instruction, is left wondering how the former confusion could have arisen … ‘Essays on Deleuze’ clearly marks an important landmark in the study of Deleuze’s philosophy, culminating a 15-year period of Smith’s unique and highly influential readings of Deleuze.–Kenneth Noe, Southern Illinois University “Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy”
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.– “James Williams, Professor of European Philosophy, University of Dundee”
For the last fifteen years, all of us have read one or two of Daniel Smith’s remarkable essays on Deleuze. But now, we have all of them. Finally and thankfully, we have
Essays on Deleuze, a book that will become immediately essential reading for anyone interested in twentieth-century continental philosophy.– “Leonard Lawlor, Sparks Professor of Philosophy, Penn State University”
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‘For the last fifteen years, all of us have read one or two of Daniel Smith’s remarkable essays on Deleuze. But now, we have all of them. Finally and thankfully, we have Essays on Deleuze, a book that will become immediately essential reading for anyone interested in twentieth-century continental philosophy.’ Leonard Lawlor, Sparks Professor of Philosophy, Penn State University ‘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.’ James Williams, Professor of European Philosophy, University of Dundee Gathers 20 of Smith’s new and classic essays into one volume for the first time Combining his most important pieces over the last 15 years along with two completely new essays, on On the Becoming of Concepts and The Idea of the Open, this volume is Smith’s definitive treatise on Deleuze. Divided into four sections, the book covers Deleuze’s use of the history of philosophy, his philosophical system, several Deleuzian concepts and his position within contemporary philosophy. Smith’s essays are frequent references for students and scholars working on Deleuze. Several of the articles have already become touchstones in the field, notably those on Alain Badiou and Jacques Derrida. For anyone interested in Deleuze’s philosophy, this book is not to be missed. Daniel W. Smith is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Purdue University. Cover design: Robert Smail’s Printing Works / Barrie Tullett [insert logo file] www.euppublishing.com ISBN [please add in the white area above the barcode] Barcode
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Daniel W. Smith is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University.
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