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The Priority of Events: Deleuze's Logic of Sense
December, 2011
Paper, 352 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-7486-4364-6
Edinburgh University Press
$40.00
An incisive analysis of Deleuze's philosophy of events.
Sean Bowden shows how the Deleuzian event should be understood in terms of the broader metaphysical thesis that substances are ontologically secondary with respect to events. He achieves this through a reconstruction of Deleuze's relation to the history of thought from the Stoics through to Simondon, taking account of Leibniz, Lautman, structuralism and psychoanalysis along the way.
This exciting new reading of Deleuze focuses firmly on his approach to events. Bowden also examines and clarifies a number of Deleuze's most difficult philosophical concepts, including sense, problematic Ideas and intensive individuation, and engages with material by Lautman and Simondon that has not yet been translated into English.