Between Deleuze And Derrida

Description:
Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida are the two leading philosophers of French post-structuralism. Their work on 'philosophies of difference' has redrawn the map of literary studies, philosophy, cultural and film studies, science studies, as well as ethics and feminist, postcolonial and political theory. Both theorists have been widely studied but very little has been done to examine the relation between them. 'Between Deleuze and Derrida' explores and compares their work via a number of key themes, including the philosophy of difference, language, memory, time, event, and love, as well as relating these themes to their respective approaches to philosophy, literature, politics and mathematics.

Table of Contents:
Introduction 1. Future Politics 2. Living a time out of joint 3. Deleuze and Derrida, Immanence and Transcendence: two directions in recent French thought 4. The beginnings of thought: the fundamental experience in Derrida and Deleuze 5. Ontology and Logography: the pharmacy, plato and the simulacrum 6. Algebras, Geometries, and Topologies of the Fold: Deleuze, Derrida and Quasi-Mathematical Thinking (with Leibniz and Mallarme) 7. The Philosopher and the Writer: a question of style 8. Active habits and passive events or Bartleby 9. Beyond Hermeneutics: Deleuze, Derrida and contemporary theory 10. Language and persecution 11. Love

Author Biography:
Editors: Paul Patton is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. John Protevi is Assistant Professor in the Department of French Studies at Louisiana State University, USA.