Gilles Deleuze's "Difference and Repetition": A Critical Introduction and Guide (Critical Introductions and Guides)

James Williams (Honorary Professor of Philosophy, Deakin University)

ISBN 10: 0748668810 / ISBN 13: 9780748668816

Published by Edinburgh University Press, United Kingdom, Edinburgh, 2013

About this Item

By critically analysing Deleuze's methods, principles and arguments, James Williams helps readers to engage with the revolutionary core of Deleuze's philosophy and take up positions for or against its most innovative and controversial ideas. This second edition includes a new chapter on questions of method around important concepts such as intensity, anarchic distribution, transcendental illusion and distinctness. Here, Williams reflects on the place of judgement and action in Deleuzes work in order to explain its ethical and political dimensions. He also engages with the foremost recent interpretations of Deleuze by Bryant, Sauvagnargues, Smith, Somers-Hall, Hughes and de Beistegui, introducing you to the key debates and oppositions. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Gilles Deleuze's "Difference and Repetition": A Critical Introduction and Guide (Critical Introductions and Guides)
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, United Kingdom, Edinburgh
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0748668810
• ISBN 13: 9780748668816
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 426 grams

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Synopsis

By critically analysing Deleuze's methods, principles and arguments, James Williams helps readers to engage with the revolutionary core of Deleuze's philosophy and take up positions for or against its most innovative and controversial ideas. This second edition includes a new chapter on questions of method around important concepts such as intensity, anarchic distribution, transcendental illusion and distinctness. Here, Williams reflects on the place of judgement and action in Deleuze’s work in order to explain its ethical and political dimensions.  He also engages with the foremost recent interpretations of Deleuze by Bryant, Sauvagnargues, Smith, Somers-Hall, Hughes and de Beistegui, introducing you to the key debates and oppositions.

About the Author

James Williams is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of York. He is the author of Edward Lear (Liverpool University Press, 2018) and co-editor, with Matthew Bevis, of Edward Lear and the Play of Poetry (OUP, 2016). He has published articles on Alfred Tennyson, Samuel Beckett, Lewis Carroll, and Victorian comic verse.