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Deleuze and Derrida: Difference and the Power of the Negative - Softcover

Vernon W. Cisney

 
9781474462617: Deleuze and Derrida: Difference and the Power of the Negative
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1474462618 ISBN 13: 9781474462617
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2020

Synopsis

For the first time, Vernon W. Cisney brings you a scholarly analysis of Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze's contrasting concepts of difference. He distinguishes their responses to Hegel and Nietzsche. He finds that Deleuze formulates an affirmative conception of difference, while Derrida's differance amounts to an irresolvable negativity.

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About the Author

Vernon W. Cisney is Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Philosophy at Gettysburg College. He is the author of Deleuze and Derrida: Difference and the Power of the Negative (Edinburgh University Press, 2018) and Derrida's Voice and Phenomenon An Edinburgh Philosophical Guide (Edinburgh University Press, 2014). He is the co-editor of Between Foucault and Derrida (Edinburgh University Press, 2016); The Way of Nature and the Way of Grace: Philosophical Footholds on Terrence Malick's Tree of Life (Northwestern University Press, 2016); and Biopower: Foucault and Beyond (University of Chicago Press, 2015).

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'Deleuze and Derrida is not only the best study we have by far of the notoriously divergent ways these two seminal French thinkers approached the problem of "difference". It is also a manifesto for the philosophy of the future, since only difference, Cisney insists, is capable of pushing thought to places it has never been before. A wonderfully lucid and provocative book.' Daniel W. Smith, Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University Explores the distinction between the concepts of difference in the philosophies of Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze Few thinkers from the twentieth century have had a greater impact on the contemporary continental tradition in philosophy than Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze. While their respective areas of research extended into political, literary and artistic domains they are still best known for their respective attempts to theoretically formulate non-dialectical conceptions of difference. As yet, no scholarly work has attempted to compare or contrast their concepts of difference. Vernon W. Cisney draws such a distinction between them, by examining each with respect to Hegel and Nietzsche, differentiating them on the basis of the criticisms they level against Hegel, as well as their valorisations of Nietzsche, and the ways in which they understand Nietzsche's thought to surpass that of Hegel. Vernon W. Cisney is an Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Philosophy at Gettysburg College, PA, USA. Cover image: istockphoto.com Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-0-7486-9622-2 Barcode

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Deleuze and Derrida is not only the best study we have by far of the notoriously divergent ways these two seminal French thinkers approached the problem of difference . It is also a manifesto for the philosophy of the future, since only difference, Cisney insists, is capable of pushing thought to places it has never been before. A wonderfully lucid and provocative book. Daniel W. Smith, Professor of Philosophy, Purdue UniversityExplores the distinction between the concepts of difference in the philosophies of Jacques Derrida and Gilles DeleuzeFew thinkers from the twentieth century have had a greater impact on the contemporary continental tradition in philosophy than Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze.While their respective areas of research extended into political, literary and artistic domains they are still best known for their respective attempts to theoretically formulate non-dialectical conceptions of difference. As yet, no scholarly work has attempted to compare or contrast their concepts of difference.Vernon W. Cisney draws such a distinction between them, by examining each with respect to Hegel and Nietzsche, differentiating them on the basis of the criticisms they level against Hegel, as well as their valorisations of Nietzsche, and the ways in which they understand Nietzsche s thought to surpass that of Hegel.Vernon W. Cisney is an Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Philosophy at Gettysburg College, PA, USA.Cover image: istockphoto.comCover design:[EUP logo]edinburghuniversitypress.comISBN 978-0-7486-9622-2Barcode

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Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1474462618
ISBN 13 
9781474462617
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
320