Deleuze Beyond Badiou: Ontology, Multiplicity, and Event (Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture)

First published in 1997, Alain Badiou's Deleuze: The Clamor of Being cast Gilles Deleuze as a secret philosopher of the One. In this work, Clayton Crockett rehabilitates Deleuze's position within contemporary political and philosophical thought, advancing an original reading of the thinker's major works and a constructive conception of his philosophical ontology. Through close readings of Deleuze's Difference and Repetition , Capitalism and Schizophrenia (with Felix Guattari), and Cinema 2 , Crockett argues that Deleuze is anything but the austere, quietistic, and aristocratic intellectual Badiou had portrayed. Instead, Crockett underscores Deleuze's radical aesthetics and innovative scientific, political, and mathematical forms of thought. He also refutes the notion Deleuze retreated from politics toward the end of his life. Using Badiou's critique as a foil, Crockett maintains the profound continuity of Deleuze's work and builds a general interpretation of his more obscure formulations. First published in 1997, Alain Badiou's Deleuze: The Clamor of Being cast the thinker as a secret philosopher of the One, compromising Deleuze's standing among political philosophers concerned with the practical and historical aspects of existence. Clayton Crockett rehabilitates Deleuze's position within contemporary, cutting-edge political and philosophical thought, advancing an original reading of the thinker's major works and a constructive conception of his philosophical ontology. Through close readings of Deleuze's Difference and Repetition, Capitalism and Schizophrenia (with Felix Guattar Introduction The clamor of being: Badiou vs. Deleuze A repetition of difference Deleuze's logic of double articulation Producing the event as machine, as fold, and as image Being a sublime event Being a subject in a transcendental world Energetics of being Politics of the event Vodou economics: Haiti and the future of democracy. Restoring the reputation of a twentieth-century philosopher and his relevance to twenty-first-century political thought.