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The Principles of Deleuzian Philosophy - (Plateaus - New Directions in Deleuze Studies) by Koichiro Kokubun (Paperback)
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Highlights
- What gives us the right to speak of a Deleuzian philosophy, a philosophy at first sight concerned solely with interpreting other philosophers and writers?
- About the Author: Koichiro Kokubun is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tokyo Wren Nishina is studying for an MPhil in Ethics at the University of Tohoku after completing his BPhil in PPE at St. John's College, University of Oxford.
- 224 Pages
- Philosophy, Individual Philosophers
- Series Name: Plateaus - New Directions in Deleuze Studies
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About the Book
Koichiro Kokubun focuses on Deleuze's method of 'free indirect discourse' to locate and explicate Deleuze's philosophy of transcendental empiricism and its constitutive limits. He works through Deleuze's confrontations with Hume, Kant, Bergson, Freud, Lacan, Foucault and Guattari, and the influence of structuralism and psychoanalysis.
Book Synopsis
What gives us the right to speak of a Deleuzian philosophy, a philosophy at first sight concerned solely with interpreting other philosophers and writers? Koichiro Kokubun focuses on Deleuze's method of 'free indirect discourse' to locate and explicate Deleuze's philosophy of transcendental empiricism and its constitutive limits. Working through Deleuze's confrontations with Hume, Kant, Bergson, Freud, Lacan, Foucault and Guattari, Kokubun uncovers a philosophy strongly influenced by structuralism and psychoanalysis, which had to overtake these movements because of its practical ambitions. Kokubun concludes with a radical revitalisation of the political potential of this philosophy.
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An original interpretation of Deleuze's philosophy What gives us the right to speak of a Deleuzian philosophy, a philosophy at first sight concerned solely with interpreting other philosophers and writers? Koichiro Kokubun focuses on Deleuze's method of 'free indirect discourse' to locate and explicate Deleuze's philosophy of transcendental empiricism and its constitutive limits. Working through Deleuze's confrontations with Hume, Kant, Bergson, Freud, Lacan, Foucault and Guattari, Kokubun uncovers a philosophy strongly influenced by structuralism and psychoanalysis, which had to overtake these movements because of its practical ambitions. Kokubun concludes with a radical revitalisation of the political potential of this philosophy. Koichiro Kokubun is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. This is his first book to be published in English. Wren Nishina is studying for an MPhil in Ethics at the University of Tohoku.Review Quotes
This excellent book provides one of the clearest and most illuminating accounts that I've yet read of Deleuze's general project. Koichiro Kokubun makes a compelling case for reading Deleuze as a transcendental philosopher in the proper sense of the term, as someone who aims to press the rigorous search for the most fundamental conditions of thought or experience as far as possible, on the assumption that 'we cannot break it off when we please'. Very few of Deleuze's readers have managed to push such a productive and original approach so far, and in so many dimensions, without hesitating in the face of those limits that still define more conventional and less inventive perspectives.-- "Peter Hallward, author of Out of This World: Deleuze and the Philosophy of Creation"
About the Author
Koichiro Kokubun is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tokyo
Wren Nishina is studying for an MPhil in Ethics at the University of Tohoku after completing his BPhil in PPE at St. John's College, University of Oxford. He acted as the principal interpreter for the Deleuze/Guattari Studies in Asia Camp and Conference 2019 held in Tokyo.