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Deleuze's neo-leibnizianism, events and the logic of sense's 'static ontological genesis'

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posted on 2010-01-01, 00:00 authored by Sean BowdenSean Bowden
In The Logic of Sense, Deleuze effectively argues that two types of relation between events govern their ‘evental’ or ‘ideal play’, and ultimately underlie determined substances, that is, worldly individuals and persons. Leibniz calls these relations ‘compossibility’ and ‘incompossibility’. Deleuze calls them ‘convergence’ and ‘divergence’. This paper explores how Deleuze appropriates and extends a number of Leibnizian concepts in order to ground the idea that events have ontological priority over substances ‘all the way down’.

History

Journal

Deleuze studies

Volume

4

Pagination

301-328

Location

Edinburgh, Scotland

Open access

  • Yes

ISSN

1750-2241

eISSN

1755-1684

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2010, Edinburgh University Press

Issue

3

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press