Gilles Deleuze The Intensive Reduction [Paperback]

Gilles Deleuze: The Intensive Reductionbrings together eighteen essays written by an internationally acclaimed team of scholars to provide a comprehensive overview of the work of Gilles Deleuze, one of the most important and influential European thinkers of the twentieth century. Each essay addresses a central issue in Deleuze's philosophy (and that of his regular co-author, F?lix Guattari) that remains to this day controversial and unsettled.
Since Deleuze's death in 1994, the technical aspects of his philosophy have been largely neglected. These essays address that gap in the existing scholarship by focusing on his contribution to philosophy. Each contributor advances the discussion of a contested point in the philosophy of Deleuze to shed new light on as yet poorly-understood problems and to stimulate new and vigorous exchanges regarding his relationship to philosophy, schizoanlysis, his aesthetic, ethical and political thought.
Together, the essays in this volume make an invaluable contribution to our understanding of Deleuze's philosophy.

Constantin V. Boundas is Professor of Philosophy at Trent University, Canada. He is the editor of The Deleuze Reader (Columbia UP, 1993) and, with Dorothea Olkowski, The Theater of Philosophy: Critical Essays on Gilles Deleuze (Routledge, 1994). He is also the translator of Deleuze's The Logic of Sense (Continuum, 2002) and Empiricism and Subjectivity (Columbia UP, 1991).

IntroductionPart I: Deleuze and Philosophy 1. Deleuze and the Question of Ontology, V?ronique Bergen (University of Paris VIII, France) 2. The 'Future' of Deleuze: An Unfinished Project, Zsuzsa Baross (Trent University, Canada) 3. The New Harmony, Ronald Bogue (University of Georgia, USA) 4. The New Whitehead?: An Ontology of the 'Virtual' in Whitehead's Metaphysics, Keith Robinson (Davenport University, USA) Part II: Schizoanalysis and Lacan5. On the Idea of Pure Practical Reason in Kant, Deleuze and Lacan, Andrew Cutrofello (Ll/