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- James Williams: The Transversal Thought of Gilles Deleuze: Encounters and Influences

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‘The construction of the most open, far-reaching and well-determined metaphysics.’ This book develops an interpretation of Gilles Deleuze’s work around the problem drawn-up by this phrase. The interpretation is but one of the multiple ways Deleuze’s work can be taken up and read. It neither aims to be comprehensive, nor faithful – in that rather sad and unreflective sense of ‘true to’ as devotedly close to the words or spirit of a master or of master-works. Instead, a series of tensions and contradictions that define the problem will guide discussions of relations between Deleuze and six other philosophers (Kant, Bachelard, Whitehead, Levinas, Lewis and Harman). The restricted terms of the discussions should not be taken as signs of irrelevance at the level of the problem. Quite the contrary: the problem reverberates throughout Deleuze’s many works and contributions. Where these impact on life, so does the problem, with its tensions and difficulties, but also with its productive power.

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