David Lapoujade Libri

In Aberrant Movements, David Lapoujade offers one of the first comprehensive treatments of Deleuzian thought. Drawing on the entirety of Deleuze's work as well as his collaborations with Félix Guattari, from the transcendental empiricism of Difference and Repetition to the schizoanalysis and geophilosophy of Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus, Lapoujade explores the central problem underlying the delirious coherence of Deleuze's philosophy: aberrant movements. These are the movements that Deleuze wrests from Kantian idealism, Nietzsche's eternal return, and the nonsense of Lewis Carroll; they are the schizophrenic processes of the unconscious and the nomadic line of flight traversing history - in short, the forces that permeate life and thought. Tracing and classifying their irrational logics represent the quintessential tasks of Deleuzian philosophy.

"On the complex aesthetics and ontology at work in Étienne Souriau's unique oeuvre"-- Provided by publisher

Time and affect -- The obscure number of duration: Bergson the mathematician -- Intuition and sympathy: Bergson the perspectivist -- The attachment to life: Bergson the doctor of civilization -- After man: Bergson the spiritualist

Originally published in French in 1997 and appearing here in English for the first time, David Lapoujade's William James: Empiricism and Pragmatism is both an accessible and rigorous introduction to and a pioneering rereading of James's thought.