Rhizomatic connections, just published by palgrave macmillan, provides an excellent and much needed overview of the reception histories of these three thinkers. Themes are examined in the context of the contrasts, differences and conjunctions the rhizomatic. Deleuze, whitehead, bergson rhizomatic connections k. Both writers provide compelling reasons as to why, and how, contemporary analyses should avoid positing the human person as either an object or a subject. Henri bergson s family lived in london for a few years after his birth, and he obtained an early familiarity with the english language from his mother. A deleuzian rethinking of time in healthy lifestyle advice. In collaboration with bertrand russell, he coauthored the threevolume principia mathematica 1910, 1912, 19. Thinking the event in badiou, deleuze and whitehead in event and decision. Matter and memory, deleuze demonstrates both the development and the range of three fundamental bergsonian concepts. Programmatic dysfunction in the chaosmos of deleuze and whitehead, in k. Language, subjectivity and individuality goldsmiths.
Later he was instrumental in pioneering the approach to metaphysics now known as process philosophy, which today. Becoming actual whitehead and deleuze on subjectivity. Rhizomatic connections is forthcoming from palgrave macmillan 2008. This volume explores the relations between the work of gilles deleuze, alfred north whitehead and henri bergson.
Language, subjectivity and individuality michael halewood a chapter in deleuze, whitehead, bergson. Deleuze, whitehead and the transformations of metaphysics. Amid a democracy of fellow creaturesontopolitics and the problem of slavery in whitehead and deleuze with an intervention of badiou, in r. Gilles deleuze, alfred north whitehead and henri bergson have each been recognized as among the leading philosophers of our age, definitively marking both ends of the twentieth century.
The concept of the rhizome as developed by deleuze and guattari in a thousand plateaus is highly relevant to a discussion of a shifting configuration of mediaelements. Keith robinsons introduction to the collection deleuze, whitehead, bergson. Programmatic dysfunction in the chaosmos of deleuze and whitehead. Gilles deleuze, alfred north whitehead and henri bergson have each been recognized as among the leading philosophers of our age, definitively marking both. I first examine deleuze s claim that a philosophy of difference. Themes are examined in the context of the contrasts, differences and conjunctions the rhizomatic connections between their shared concepts. Rhizomatic connections, new york, palgrave macmillan, 2009, 237 pp. Bergsonism is also important to an understanding of deleuze s own work, influenced as it is by bergson. Pdf deleuze, whitehead, and the beautiful soul 2019 russell. Alfred north whitehead 18611947 was a british mathematician, logician. Rhizomatic connections is the first book length collection of essays exploring the relations between the work of gilles deleuze, alfred north whitehead and henri bergson. Some preliminary remarks on the founding gestures of the new materialism. I lay out four conceptual and methodological markers there are many more creativity, event, prehension, empiricism that.
Whitehead 18611947 lies in his direct yet productive challenge to the culture of thought inherent in modernity, a challenge that suffuses science, social theory and philosophy alike. Maybe start with the toc for deleuze, whitehead, bergson. It is what deleuze calls an image of thought, based on the botanical rhizome, that apprehends multiplicities. Deleuze saw something in bergson that needed to be made more precise. Deleuze, whitehead, bergson rhizomatic connections. Deleuze adopted spinozas concept of immanence, in which all forms of existence and matter are conceptualised as a single substance folded into different manifestations and forms, both material and non. Rhizomatic connections is the first collection of essays to explore the significant connections between the thought of gilles deleuze, alfred north whitehead and henri. Id say stengers, for example, is among the greatest academics who are part of the legacy, even if shes not a bergson specialist.
Unlike some of the more destructive aspects of postmodernism and poststructuralism, whitehead s diagnosis of the conceptual fault lines of the modern era does not entail. Department of philosophy and interdisciplinary studies. Ontology and politics in badiou, deleuze, and whitehead cambridge. Edited by keith robinson, the heythrop journal on deepdyve, the largest online rental service for scholarly research with thousands of academic publications available at your fingertips. The whitehead research project website is dedicated to the research of, and scholarship on, the texts, philosophy and life of alfred north whitehead. Deleuze, whitehead and the reversal of platonism philpapers. It is clear that within deleuze and whitehead s work, there is an important re description of the time, place and status of all subjectivity, a subjectivity which is not limited to the human. For a more deleuzian whitehead with a butlerian intervention. A nomadic reading of rudolf steiner and bergson and deleuze and others on knowledge as nonrepresentational and the importance of aesthesis. It examines the articulation between their concepts, methods and modes of philosophy. His most recent book, an edited collection of papers, titled deleuze, whitehead, bergson. After writing two early books on lyotard 1998 and 2000. This paper explores one means of connection between whitehead and deleuze through an investigation into the figure of the beautiful soul. Deleuze, whitehead, bergson rhizomatic connections gilles deleuze, alfred north whitehead and henri bergson have.
As deleuze and guattari explain, the process of becoming is not one of imitation or analogy, it is generative of a new way of being that is a function of influences rather than resemblances. The process is one of removing the element from its original functions and bringing about new ones. Seeing how brings whitehead and deleuze closer together by showing that their respective. Download pdf save cite this item table of contents. James williams has emerged as one of the most important and accomplished readers of the philosophy of gilles deleuze. Ontology and politics in badiou, deleuze and whitehead, eds. Robinsons contextualization of them within the analytical and continental philosophical traditions makes clear why each has been marginalized or. He has interests in postkantian philosophy and has published work on foucault, deleuze and whitehead. In spinozas monist model, there is one substance that forms into. I believe the same will have to be done with deleuze, what is the precise formulation of deleuzianbergsonism. Alfred north whitehead 18611947 was a british mathematician, logician and philosopher best known for his work in mathematical logic and the philosophy of science. Rhizomatic connections is the first book length collection of essays exploring the relations between the work of gilles deleuze, alfred north whitehead and henri. With contributions by established international scholars from cultural studies, philosophy and theology, deleuze, whitehead, bergson examines the articulation between their. Ian buchanan this is the original groundbreaking series of deleuze inspired books that has already placed deleuze s thought in connection with feminist theory, music, space, geography, queer theory, performance, postcolonial studies, contemporary art, and is constantly opening new frontiers in deleuze studies.
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