Ryan J. Johnson

The Deleuze-Lucretius Encounter

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Produktbeschreibung

Scholarship has ignored one of the more formative influences on Deleuze: Lucretian atomism. Filling a significant gap in Deleuze Studies, Ryan J. Johnson tells the story of the Deleuze-Lucretius encounter that begins and ends with a powerful claim: Lucretian atomism produced Deleuzianism.

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Produktdetails

• Plateaus - New Directions in Deleuze Studies
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• 113, 062 edition
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 160mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 444g
• ISBN-13: 9781474432306
• ISBN-10: 1474432301
• Artikelnr.: 49013955

Autorenporträt

Ryan J. Johnson is Associate Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Elon University, in North Carolina. Ryan's early books include The Deleuze-Lucretius Encounter (Edinburgh UP 2016) and Deleuze, A Stoic (Edinburgh UP 2020), as well as the co-edited collections Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics (Edinburgh UP 2018) and Nietzsche and Epicurus (Bloomsbury 2020). His recent work includes the co-written Phenomenology of Black Spirit (Edinburgh UP 2023) and the monograph Three American Hegels (Rowman & Littlefield 2024). His future work is on the radical abolitionist John Brown, Spinoza, and John Coltrane.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Deleuze and the adventure of ideas
2. The atomic idea
3. Differentiation, individuation, dramatisation, and actualisation
4. The encounter in sense and thought
5. Ethics in the Garden of Epicurus
Conclusion: The encounter
Bibliography