The Precariousness of Being and Thought in the Philosophies of Gilles Deleuze and Alain Badiou

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Abbreviations xi
5. What Difference does Deleuze’s Difference make? 3
6. Real Essences without Essentialism 31
7. Deleuze, Kant, and the Theory of Immanent Ideas 43
8. The Precariousness of Being and Thought in the Philosophies of Gilles Deleuze and Alain Badiou 62
9. Counter-Actualisation and the Method of Intuition 74
10. Inconsistencies of Character: David Hume on Sympathy, Intensity and Artifice 85
11. A Fourth Repetition 98
12. Deleuze and the Meaning of Life 121
13. The Ethics of Becoming-Imperceptible 133
14. The Limits of Intensity and the Mechanics of Death 160
15. The Problem of the Birth of Philosophy in Greece in the Thought of Gilles Deleuze 175
16. Gilles Deleuze’s Political Posture 185
17. Fabulation, Narration and the People to Come 202
18. Why Am I Deleuzian? 227
19. List of Contributors 250
20. Index 254