Matter & The Syntheses of Time. Despite the amount of secondary literature on Deleuze, it’s surprising how little of it pays attention to arguably his most important work, Difference & Repetition.
While commentary generally alludes to arguments from it, and often borrows concepts from it, there’s been very little discussion of it as a whole – particularly with respect to the difficult later chapters. Hopefully that’s changing though, as Alberto Toscano made the later chapters a key moment in The Theatre of Production, Ray Brassier has devoted an in-depth discussion to them in Nihil Unbound, and Sinthome has an entire book focused on Difference & Repetition (which I highly recommend, as Sinthome maintains his typical clarity, rigor and insight in tackling Deleuze's most difficult work).
With regards to Deleuze, Brassier carries out this critique of the ontologization of time by focusing on the three temporal syntheses outlined in Difference & Repetition. Ray Brassier’s Alien Theory: The Decline of Materialism in the Name of Matter UPDATED. Amazon. Iain Hamilton Grant « Naught Thought. For those interested here’s some of the things I’m doing in the next few months: March 22 11:00AM: As part of the ACLA I’m presenting a paper entitled “The Flint of Prometheus” on the relation between Schelling, Marx, and Geology.
At NYU (25 W 4th st, room c16). March 22 3:00 PM: I’ll be participating […] Following from my last post I want to argue that German Idealism is a project that takes the genesis of the abstract as engine and problem for philosophical practice and for practice taken more generally. Assuming Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel accept Kant’s critique of dogmatic metaphysics but want to evade his methodological dualism as a […] I recently read two reviews of recent books on German Idealism.
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