One of the terminological constants in the philosophical work of Gilles Deleuze is the work "immanence." His philosophy of immanence is fundamentally characterized by its opposition to all philosophies of "transcendence," and on that basis, Deleuze's project has been premised as a return to a materialist metaphysics. Christian Kerslake argues against this misconception, reassessing Deleuze's relationship to Kantian epistemology and post-Kantian philosophy. He not only translates Deleuze's philosophy to students working within the tradition, but he also reconstructs our idea of the post-Kantian tradition, isolating the influences of Schelling and Wronski and the subsequent advances made by Bergson, Warrain, and Deleuze.
Author(s): Christian Kerslake
Series: Plateaus – New Directions in Deleuze Studies
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 345
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Note on the Text and Acknowledgements......Page 8
Note on Sources and Abbreviations......Page 9
Introduction: The Problem of Immanence – Kant, Hegel and Spinozism......Page 12
1 Critique and the Ends of Reason......Page 58
2 The Metaphysical Origins of Kantianism......Page 112
3 Kant and the Structure of Cognition......Page 178
4 Deleuze and the Vertigo of Immanence......Page 221
Appendix: Francis Warrain’s Diagram of Wronski’s Law of Creation......Page 297
Bibliography......Page 299
Index......Page 338
