Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 19:27:42 +0000 (GMT) From: alison Silver <alison_slvr-AT-yahoo.co.uk> To: deleuze-guattari-AT-lists.driftline.org Subject: [D-G] Post-Continental Philosophy and Deleuze... Something that should be of interest for Deleuze readers.... Alison Silver _________________________________________________________________ Continuum Press announce a new work at the forefront of contemporary philosophy POST-CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY: AN OUTLINE JOHN MULLARKEY Post-Continental Philosophy outlines the shift in Continental thought over the last 20 years through the work of four central figures: Gilles Deleuze, Alain Badiou, Michel Henry, and Fran=E7ois Laruelle. Though they follow seemingly different methodologies and agendas, each insists on the need for a return to the category of immanence if philosophy is to have any future at all. Rejecting both the German phenomenological tradition of transcendence (of the Ego, Being, Consciousness, Alterity, or Flesh), as well as the French Structuralist valorisation of Language, they instead take the immanent categories of biology (Deleuze), mathematics (Badiou), affectivity (Henry), and axiomatic science (Laruelle) as focal points for a renewal of thought. Consequently, Continental philosophy is taken in a new direction that engages science and nature with a refreshingly critical and non-reductive approach to life, set-theory, embodiment, and knowledge. However, each of these new philosophies of immanence still regards what the other is doing as transcendent representation, raising the question of what this return to immanence really means. John Mullarkey's analysis provides a startling answer. By teasing out their internal differences, he discovers that the only thing that can be said of immanence without falling back into transcendent representation seems not to be a saying at all but a 'showing', a depiction through lines. Because each of these philosophies also places a special value on the diagram, the common ground of immanence is that occupied by the philosophical diagram rather than the word. The heavily illustrated final chapter of the book literally outlines how a mode of philosophical discourse might proceed when using diagrams to think immanence. CONTENTS Introduction: 1988, Outlines of a Philosophical Event Chapter 1 Deleuze and the Travails of Virtual Immanence Chapter 2 Henry and the Affects of Actual Immanence Chapter 3 Alain Badiou: The Universal Quantifier Chapter 4 From Philosophy to Non-Philosophy: Fran=E7ois Laruelle Chapter 5 Thinking in Diagrams Conclusion: The Shape of Thoughts to Come `Mullarkey's Post-Continental Philosophy is a very important book. It is the first book to discuss four philosophers hardly ever associated: Deleuze, Henry, Badiou, and Laruelle. But Mullarkey's book is also very bold: it may be the beginning of a new form of thinking, beyond the old opposition between Continental philosophy and analytic philosophy. The thought of absolute immanence opens the way.' Len Lawlor, University of Memphis `John Mullarkey's Post-Continental Philosophy is a challenging and important work . . . Not only does Mullarkey cleverly expose many previously unrecognized connections among these thinkers, he does so in his own remarkable idiom.' John Protevi, Louisiana state University Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. (8 Dec 2006) ISBN: 0826464610 Price: =A319.99 (pb) ___________________________________________________________ Try the all-new Yahoo! Mail. "The New Version is radically easier to use" =96 The Wall Street Journal http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html _______________________________________________ List address: deleuze-guattari-AT-driftline.org Info: http://lists.driftline.org/listinfo.cgi/deleuze-guattari-driftline.org Archives: www.driftline.org
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