Against Continuity: Gilles Deleuze's Speculative Realism

ISBN: 1474447775

Author: Kleinherenbrink, Arjen

Condition: New

Against Continuity is the first book to demonstrate that the beating heart of Gilles Deleuzes philosophy is a systematic ontology of irreducible, singular entities. This requires a radical break with decades of Deleuzian orthodoxy, according to which Deleuzes metaphysics revolves around the dissolution of discrete entities into a continuous world of flows and events.With reference to all of Deleuzes work, including published and untranslated seminars, as well as the recently published 'Lettres et autres textes', Arjen Kleinherenbrink critically compares Deleuzes ontology to seven related contemporary thinkers: Levi Bryant, Maurizio Ferraris, Markus Gabriel, Manuel DeLanda, Graham Harman, Tristan Garcia and Bruno Latour. These comparisons establish Deleuze as an important precursor to object-oriented speculative realism and open up exciting new avenues of thought for critics and supporters of Deleuze alike.