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Gilles Deleuze: The Intensive Reduction brings together eighteen essays written by an internationally acclaimed team of scholars to provide a comprehensive overview of the work of Gilles Deleuze, one of the most important and influential European thinkers of the twentieth century. Each essay addresses a central issue in Deleuze's philosophy (and that of his regular co-author, Félix Guattari) that remains to this day controversial and unsettled. Since Deleuze's death in 1994, the technical aspects of his philosophy have been largely neglected. These essays address that gap in the existing schol

This book provides an exploration of the continuing philosophical relevance of Deleuze. It uses him to move between thinkers such as Aristotle Husserl Locke Foucault Badiou and Agamben leaving the reader with a comprehensive understanding of the philosophy of Deleuze and how he can be situated within a broader philosophical trajectory

First variation : ethics and aesthetics. Battlefield ; Transcendental empiricism ; Nomadology -- Second variation : three poetic formulas for Nomadic distribution. Time out of joint ; The dice throw ; 'The garden of forking paths' -- Third variation : multiplicities. The image of thought ; variations ; poetics of multiplicities -- Fourth variation : Malcolm Lowry, or, the manifesto of things. The march towards death ; Mannerisms ; For a microphysics of qualities.

The Companion is organized into two sections, each one of which reflects the developments of the Anglo-American Analytic and the Continental European philosophical traditions respectively. An appendix presents the main accomplishments of non-Western philosophies in the same time frame. Each section discusses the main movements and fields of the discipline throughout the century. The authors have maintained a balance between the historian's commitment to breadth and accuracy with the commitment of the systematic philosopher to the engaged point of view and to critical reflection. The result is a distinctive reference book made up of a series of philosophical studies -an invaluable companion to anyone who is searching for a panoramic but also reliable and challenging presentation of the philosophical ideas which shaped the last century