The Deleuze-Lucretius Encounter (Plateaus - New Directions In Deleuze Studies)

More than any other 20th-century philosopher, Deleuze considers himself an apprentice to the history of philosophy. But scholarship has ignored one of the more formative influences on Deleuze: Lucretian atomism. Deleuze's encounter with Lucretius sparked a way of thinking that resonates throughout all his writings: from immanent ontology to affirmative ethics, from dynamic materialism to the generation of thought itself. Filling a significant gap in Deleuze Studies, Ryan J. Johnson tells the story of the Deleuze-Lucretius encounter that begins and ends with a powerful claim: Lucretian atomism produced Deleuzianism.

• | Author: Assistant Professor of Philosophy Ryan J (Elon University) Johnson|Ryan J. Johnson
• | Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 12, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 288 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1474416535
• | ISBN-13: 9781474416535