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Financial markets play a huge role in society but theoretical reflections on what constitutes these markets are scarce. Drawing on sources in philosophy, finance, the history of modern mathematics, sociology and anthropology, Abstract Market Theory elaborates a new philosophy of the market in order to redress this gap between reality and theory.

AbstractIn his review of my recent book, Abstract Market Theory, Johnson mistakes my investigation into the conditions and limits of probabilistic reasoning as a rejection of its sense and utility. The same misunderstanding also appears in a review by Munger published recently. In both cases this leads to a skewed and reductive understanding of my reconception of the relationship between price and value. In this response, I present an outline of the philosophical goals of Abstract Market Theory. My intent is not just to show that these reviews are incorrect in their presentation of my argument, but to also indicate why a philosophical perspective remains indispensable for our understanding of the market.

The philosophy of Gilles Deleuze is increasingly gaining the prestige that its astonishing inventiveness calls for in the Anglo-American theoretical context. His wide-ranging works on the history of philosophy, cinema, painting, literature and politics are being taken up and put to work across disciplinary divides and in interesting and surprising ways. However, the backbone of Deleuze's philosophy - the many and varied sources from which he draws the material for his conceptual innovation - has until now remained relatively obscure and unexplored. This book takes as its goal the examination of this rich theoretical background. Presenting essays by a range of the world's foremost Deleuze scholars, and a number of up and coming theorists of his work, the book is composed of in-depth analyses of the key figures in Deleuze's lineage whose significance - as a result of either their obscurity or the complexity of their place in the Deleuzean text - has not previously been well understood. This work will prove indispensable to students and scholars seeking to understand the context from which Deleuze's ideas emerge. Included are essays on Deleuze's relationship to figures as varied as Marx, Simondon, Wronski, Hegel, Hume, Maimon, Ruyer, Kant, Heidegger, Husserl, Reimann, Leibniz, Bergson and Freud

Jacques Derrida continues to be the worldGÇÖs single most influential philosophical and literary theorist. He is also one of the most controversial and most complex. His own works and critical studies of his work proliferate, but where can a student, utterly new to the work of Derrida, start?Understanding Derrida is written as an introduction to the full range of DerridaGÇÖs key ideas and influences. It brings together the worldGÇÖs leading authorities on Derrida, each writing a short, accessible essay on one central aspect of his work. Framed by a clear introduction and a complete bibliograph

This book, a sequel to the first volume of Deleuze's Philosophical Lineage (2009), presents studies of 16 key figures drawn on by Deleuze, ranging from Lucretius to Schelling through to Foucault. Each chapter introduces the work of the thinker in question, explains the context in which Deleuze draws on this work and discusses the contribution that it makes to the development of Deleuze's own ideas

The first systematic reading of Gilles Deleuze's mature philosophy through the lens of creative practiceSix authors – two fine artists, a dancer, a creative writer, a designer and a philosopher – open multiple dialogues between contemporary creative practices and the generative philosophy of Deleuze. These conversations are focused around key aspects of production: forming, framing, experiencing, encountering and practising.Key FeaturesMaintains a rigorous relationship with Deleuze's texts, including Difference and Repetition and A Thousand PlateausGives creative practitioners a way to engage creatively with the ideas of DeleuzeDemonstrates a creative approach for philosophers to engage conceptually with arts practitioners With an introduction by Gregory Flaxman

16 chapters by new and established Deleuze scholars each explore one key figure in Deleuze's philosophical heritageExplains the influence of 16 thinkers to Deleuze's philosophical project: how Deleuze draws on and responds to their workIntroduces important continental thinkers largely unknown in English-speaking countries, such as Henri Maldiney, George Dumézil, Charles Péguy and Pierre ClastresClarifies the synthetic method that Deleuze used to compose his most famous textsWill appeal to Deleuze scholars specialising in philosophy, literature and artFrom Lucretius to Schelling to Foucault, this book looks at 16 philosophers, writers and artists whose work influenced the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. Each chapter introduces the thinker in question, explains the context in which Deleuze draws their work and discusses how it contributed to the development of Deleuze's own ideas.Deleuze's Philosophical Lineage II complements the original Deleuze's Philosophical Lineage volume by adding new voices to the discussion: looking at thinkers not covered by the first volume, intruducing well-known French philosophers to English-language Deleuze studies and reflecting the latest Deleuze scholarship.ContributorsMichael James Bennett, University of King's College, Canada.Ronald Bogue, University of Georgia, USA.Sean Bowden, Deakin University, Australia.Carlo Brentari, University of Trento, Italy.Kyla Bruff, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada.Vlad Ionescu, Hasselt University, Belgium.Graham Jones, Federation University, Australia.Craig Lundy, Nottingham Trent University, UK.Paul Patton, University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.Knox Peden, University of Melbourne, Australia.Jon Roffe, Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy, Australia.Edward Scheer, University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.Daniel W. Smith,Purdue University, USA.Piotrek Świątkowski, Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands.Kamini Vellodi, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, UK."

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Editors' Introduction: Simondon, Finally -- Chapter 1 Technical Mentality -- Explications -- Chapter 2 'Technical Mentality' Revisited: Brian Massumi on Gilbert Simondon -- Chapter 3 Identity and Individuation: Some Feminist Reflections -- Chapter 4 Crystals and Membranes: Individuation and Temporality -- Implications -- Chapter 5 The Question of Anxiety in Gilbert Simondon -- Chapter 6 Infra-Psychic Individualization: Transductive Connections and the Genesis of Living Techniques -- Chapter 7 'Du mort qui saisit le vif ': Simondonian Ontology Today -- Chapter 8 The Aesthetics of Gilbert Simondon: Anticipation of the Contemporary Aesthetic Experience -- Resonances -- Chapter 9 Gilles Deleuze, a Reader of Gilbert Simondon -- Chapter 10 Science and Ontology: From Merleau- Ponty's 'Reduction' to Simondon's 'Transduction' -- Chapter 11 The Question of the Individual in Georges Canguilhem and Gilbert Simondon -- Chapter 12 The Theatre of Individuation: Phase- Shift and Resolution in Simondon and Heidegger -- Glossary: Fifty Key Terms in the Works of Gilbert Simondon -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748668342','ISBN:9780748668335','ISBN:9780748643530','ISBN:9780748643523','ISBN:9780748643516']);From Cantor to category/topos theory, from Lacan to Lautman and from Sartre to the subject, these 13 essays engage directly with the work of Alain Badiou. They focus on the philosophical content of Badiou's work and show how he connects both with his contemporaries and his philosophical heritage. This is an important collection for anyone interested in the work of Badiou and contemporary Continental philosophy."

The first collection of essays to focus on Deleuze and Guattari's writing on childrenThis collection applies the characterisations of children and childhood made in Deleuze and Guattari's work to concerns that have shaped our idea of the child. Bringing together established and new voices, the authors cover philosophy, literature, religious studies, education, sociology and film studies.These essays question the popular idea that children are innocent adults-in-the-making. They consider aspects of children's lives such as time, language, gender, affect, religion, atmosphere and schooling. As a whole, this book critically interrogates the pervasive interest in the teleology of upward growth of the child.Key FeaturesRethinks traditional approaches to children and childhood, recognising their consequences for the materialist child and adult–child relationsApproaches the figurations of children and childhood in discourses such as cultural studies, queer studies, language studies, education, sociology, psychoanalysis, religion, and economics through the lens of Deleuze and GuattariApplies new approaches to children through Deleuze and Guattari, gaining awareness about our default attitudes and assumptions about children and childhoodContributorsMarkus P.J. Bohlmann, Seneca College, CanadaMat Fournier, Ithaca College, USAAnna Hickey-Moody, RMIT University, AustraliaJane Newland, Wilfrid Laurier University, CanadaHelen Palmer, Kingston University London, UKAnna Powell, Manchester Metropolitan University, UKJon Roffe, UNSW, AustraliaChris Stover, Arizona State University, USAKenneth Surin, Duke University, USAIan Thomas, Cardiff University, UK"