Gilles Deleuze and the Fabulation of Philosophy

425 Pages·2011·4.033 MB·English

by  Gregory Flaxman

gilles deleuze and the fabulation of philosophy
Powers of the False
1.(cid:3)Gilles Deleuze and the Fabulation of Philosophy
2.(cid:3)Gilles Deleuze and the Filming of Philosophy
GILLES DELEUZE AND
THE FABULATION OF
PHILOSOPHY
Powers of the False, Volume 1
gregory flaxman
University of Minnesota Press
Minneapolis
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Portions of this book were previously published as “Philosophy,” in Gilles Deleuze:
Key Concepts, 2nd ed., ed. Charles J. Stivale (London: Acumen, 2011), 216–25; “The
Subject of Chaos,” in Deleuze, Science, and the Force of the Virtual, ed. Peter Gaffney
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010), 191–209; “Deleuze’s Platonism,”
inThe Deleuze Heritage Collection, ed. Graham Jones and John Roffe (Edinburgh:
University of Edinburgh Press, 2009), 8–26; “Sci Phi,” in Producing the New: Deleuze,
Guattari, and Contemporary Life, ed. Simon O’Sullivan and Stephen Zepke (Lon-
don: Continuum, 2008), 11–21; “Losing Face” (with Elena Oxman), in Deleuze and
the Schizoanalysis of Cinema, ed. Ian Buchanan and Patricia MacCormack (Edin-
burgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2008), 39–51; “The Politics of Non-Being,” in
Deleuzian Encounters: Studies in Contemporary Social Issues, ed. Peta Malins and
Anna Hickey-Moody (London: Palgrave, 2007), 27–39; “The Future of Utopia,” Sym-
ploke- 14 (2006): 197–215; “Transcendental Aesthetics: Gilles Deleuze and the Philos-
ophy of Space,” in Deleuze and Space, ed. Ian Buchanan and Gregg Lambert (Edin-
burgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2005), 176–88.
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CONTENTS
Abbreviations ix
Preface The False to the Power of Two(cid:3) xiii
Introduction The Elements of Style 1
1 Friendship and Philosophy, Nietzsche and Deleuze 22
2 From Genealogy to Geophilosophy 72
3 Deleuze among the Sophists 115
4 The Philosophy of Fiction and the Fiction of Philosophy 181
5 Philosophy in an Inhospitable Age 237
Coda Sci-Phi 292
Acknowledgments 325
Notes(cid:3) 329
Index 375
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ABBREVIATIONS
In writing this book, I chose to default to the English-language transla-
tions of Deleuze’s works, no less to those editions produced in the United
States as opposed to the U.K.; wherever I provide the original French text, the
reader will find the reference in a note. But if the sense of an English-language
Deleuze has become (for better or worse) fairly standardized, the same can-
not be said for other authors whose writings are sufficiently represented
in this book to demand the ease of abbreviations. In the case of Nietzsche,
I opted to stick to Walter Kaufmann’s editions. As much as I eagerly await
the complete editions of Nietzsche’s works that Stanford University Press has
undertaken, this project is far from finished, and so I refer to what remain the
most widely available editions. The same principle motivates my decision to
refer to Edith Hamilton and Huntington Cairns’s version of The Collected Dia-
logues of Plato. More recent translations of individual dialogues suggest con-
siderable technical improvement, but none of these outweighs the advantage
of a comprehensive and standardized collection. Finally, with respect to Kant,
all references are made to the recent Cambridge translations under the super-
vision of Paul Guyer.
Works by Gilles Deleuze
CC Essays Critical and Clinical
DI Desert Islands and Other Texts
DR Difference and Repetition
F Foucault
Fold The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque
KCP Kant’s Critical Philosophy
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