It is what deleuze calls an image of thought, based on the botanical rhizome, that apprehends multiplicities. 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. This volume explores the relations between the work of gilles deleuze, alfred north whitehead and henri bergson. Download pdf save cite this item table of contents. Programmatic dysfunction in the chaosmos of deleuze and whitehead, in k. Becoming actual whitehead and deleuze on subjectivity. 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. 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. Maybe start with the toc for deleuze, whitehead, bergson. 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. In spinozas monist model, there is one substance that forms into. James williams has emerged as one of the most important and accomplished readers of the philosophy of gilles deleuze. Rhizomatic connections is the first collection of essays to explore the significant connections between the thought of gilles deleuze, alfred north whitehead and henri.
Programmatic dysfunction in the chaosmos of deleuze and whitehead. 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. A nomadic reading of rudolf steiner and bergson and deleuze and others on knowledge as nonrepresentational and the importance of aesthesis. Rhizomatic connections, just published by palgrave macmillan, provides an excellent and much needed overview of the reception histories of these three thinkers. In this paper i argue that deleuze s thinking with whitehead gives access to a range of novel conceptual resources that offer a route out of phenomenology and back to life, a movement beyond intentionality and back to things in their free and wild state. Themes are examined in the context of the contrasts, differences and conjunctions the rhizomatic. I first examine deleuze s claim that a philosophy of difference. Gilles deleuze, alfred north whitehead and henri bergson have each been recognized as among the leading philosophers of our age, definitively marking both. Thinking the event in badiou, deleuze and whitehead in event and decision. It examines the articulation between their concepts, methods and modes of philosophy.
Amid a democracy of fellow creaturesontopolitics and the problem of slavery in whitehead and deleuze with an intervention of badiou, in r. Deleuze, whitehead, bergson rhizomatic connections gilles deleuze, alfred north whitehead and henri bergson have. Ontology and politics in badiou, deleuze, and whitehead cambridge. Later he was instrumental in pioneering the approach to metaphysics now known as process philosophy, which today. Language, subjectivity and individuality goldsmiths. Deleuze, whitehead and the transformations of metaphysics. A deleuzian rethinking of time in healthy lifestyle advice. 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. Some preliminary remarks on the founding gestures of the new materialism. Rhizomatic connections is forthcoming from palgrave macmillan 2008. 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. Themes are examined in the context of the contrasts, differences and conjunctions the rhizomatic connections between their shared concepts. Id say stengers, for example, is among the greatest academics who are part of the legacy, even if shes not a bergson specialist. 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. Deleuze saw something in bergson that needed to be made more precise. Bergsonism is also important to an understanding of deleuze s own work, influenced as it is by bergson. International advisory board whitehead research project. Robinsons contextualization of them within the analytical and continental philosophical traditions makes clear why each has been marginalized or. Explored initially as an application of poststructural thought to education, it has more recently been identified as methodology for netenabled education.
Seeing how brings whitehead and deleuze closer together by showing that their respective. His most recent book, an edited collection of papers, titled deleuze, whitehead, bergson. Pdf deleuze, whitehead, and the beautiful soul 2019 russell. In collaboration with bertrand russell, he coauthored the threevolume principia mathematica 1910, 1912, 19.
Deleuze, whitehead, bergson rhizomatic connections. Ontology and politics in badiou, deleuze and whitehead, eds. Deleuze, whitehead, bergson rhizomatic connections k. 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. For a more deleuzian whitehead with a butlerian intervention.
Language, subjectivity and individuality michael halewood a chapter in deleuze, whitehead, bergson. I believe the same will have to be done with deleuze, what is the precise formulation of deleuzianbergsonism. Matter and memory, deleuze demonstrates both the development and the range of three fundamental bergsonian concepts. 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. Rhizomatic connections, new york, palgrave macmillan, 2009, 237 pp. Keith robinsons introduction to the collection deleuze, whitehead, bergson. The whitehead research project website is dedicated to the research of, and scholarship on, the texts, philosophy and life of alfred north whitehead. 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. He has interests in postkantian philosophy and has published work on foucault, deleuze and whitehead.