5 The Thought of History in Benjamin and Deleuze

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. 1 Events, Becoming and History 33
5. 2 Of the Rise and Progress of Philosophical Concepts: Deleuze’s Humean Historiography 54
6. 3 Theory of Delay in Balibar, Freud and Deleuze: Décalage, Nachträglichkeit, Retard 72
7. 4 Geohistory and Hydro-Bio-Politics 92
8. 5 The Thought of History in Benjamin and Deleuze 103
9. 6 The Cannibal Within: White Men and the Embodiment of Evolutionary Time 121
10. 7 Ageing, Perpetual Perishing and the Event as Pure Novelty: Péguy, Whitehead and Deleuze on Time and History 142
11. 8 Cinema, Chronos/Cronos: Becoming an Accomplice to the Impasse of History 161
12. 9 Deleuze’s Untimely: Uses and Abuses in the Appropriation of Nietzsche 188
13. 10 Is Anti-Oedipus a May ’68 book? 206
14. 11 Molar Entities and Molecular Populations in Human History 225
15. Notes on Contributors 237
16. Index 239