The Deleuzian Mind by Henry Somers-Hall

The Deleuzian Mind by Henry Somers-Hall

Gilles Deleuze was one of the most influential philosophers of the second half of the twentieth century. As with other French philosophers of his generation, such as Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, Deleuze’s work and his collaboration with Félix Guattari has also had huge influence in other disciplines, particularly literature, film studies, architecture, and science and mathematics.

The Deleuzian Mind is an outstanding collection that explores the full extent and significance of Deleuze's work, its reception and its legacy. Comprising 38 chapters written by an international and interdisciplinary team of contributors, the volume is divided into eight clear parts:

• Situating Deleuze
• A New History of Philosophy. Deleuze’s Precursors
• Encounters Critical and Clinical
• The Early Philosophy. A Logic of Sense
• The Later Philosophy. The Wasp and the Orchid
• Art and Literature
• Deleuze, Maths and Science
• Deleuze and Politics.

With its wide-ranging exploration of Deleuze’s thought and the huge influence it continues to have within the theoretical humanities and social sciences, The Deleuzian Mind is invaluable reading for students, researchers and scholars in philosophy, literature, film studies and political theory.

Jeffrey A. Bell holds the C. Howard Nichols Professorship at Southeastern Louisiana University, USA. His books include An Inquiry into Analytic-Continental Metaphysics, Towards a Critical Existentialism, Philosophy at the Edge of Chaos and Deleuze’s Hume: Philosophy, Culture and the Scottish Enlightenment. Bell has also co-edited Deleuze and History with Claire Colebrook, Beyond the Analytic-Continental Divide with Paul Livingston and Andrew Cutrofello and A Thousand Plateaus and Philosophy with Henry Somers-Hall and James Williams.

Henry Somers-Hall is a professor of philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. He has written extensively on Gilles Deleuze and the broader twentieth century French philosophical tradition. He is the author of Hegel, Deleuze and the Critique of Representation (2012), Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition (2013) and Judgement and Sense in Modern French Philosophy (2022), and co-editor of the Cambridge Companion to Deleuze (2012) and A Thousand Plateaus and Philosophy (2018).