Desert islands and other texts, 1953-1974

In: Double agents series

Abstract

Desert islands -- Jean Hyppolite's logic and existence -- Instincts and institutions -- Bergson, 1859-1941 -- Bergson's conception of difference -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau : precursor of Kafka, Céline, and Ponge -- The idea of genesis in Kant's esthetics -- Raymond Roussel, or the abhorrent vacuum -- How Jarry's pataphysics opened the way for phenomenology -- "He was my teacher" -- The philosophy of crime novels -- On Gilbert Simondon -- Humans : a dubious existence -- The method of dramatization -- Conclusions on the will to power and the eternal return -- Nietzsche's burst of laughter -- Mysticism and masochism -- On Nietzsche and the image of thought -- Gilles Deleuze talks philosophy -- Gueroult's general method for Spinoza -- The fissure of Anaxagoras and the local fires of Heraclitus -- Hume -- How do we recognize structuralism? -- Three group-related problems -- "What our prisoners want from us ..." -- Intellecutals and power -- Remarks (on Jean-François Lyotard) -- Deleuze and Guattari fight back-- -- Hélène Cixous, or writing in strobe -- Capitalism and schizophrenia -- Your special "desiring-machines" : what are they? -- H.M.'s letters -- Hot and cool -- Nomadic thought -- On capitalism and desire -- Five propositions on psychoanalysis -- Faces and surfaces -- Preface to Hocquenghem's L'Après-Mai des faunes -- A planter's art