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Author Tissandier, Alex, author.

Title Affirming Divergence : Deleuze's Reading of Leibniz / Alex Tissandier
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource
Series Plateaus. New directions in Deleuze studies
Plateaus.
Contents Intro; Affirming Divergence; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza; 1 Leibniz, Spinoza and the Anti-Cartesian Reaction; 2 Leibniz and Expression; Part II Difference and Repetition and Logic of Sense; 3 Deleuze's Critique of Representation; 4 A Leibnizian World; Part III The Fold; 5 Material Folds and the Lower Level of the Baroque House; 6 Spiritual Folds and the Upper Level of the Baroque House; Conclusion: The New Discord; References; Index
Summary Alex Tissandier traces Leibniz's ambiguous status for Deleuze to explain two key ideas in Deleuzian philosophy: a concept of difference that is not reducible to a relation of contradiction and an account of the genesis of the world that does not presuppose the structure of representation
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 29, 2018)
Subject Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716.
SUBJECT Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716 fast
Subject Philosophy.
philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY -- General.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Philosophy
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781474417754
1474417752