Edward Willatt, Kant, Deleuze and Architectonics (London and New York: Continuum, 2010)
How we read Kant's Critique of Pure Reason has a huge influence on how convincing we find the parts of which it is composed. Kant, Deleuze and Architectonics will argue that by taking its arguments and concepts in isolation we wrongly neglect the unifying architectonic method that Kant employed. Understanding this text as a response to a single problem, that of the possibility of synthetic a priori judgement, will allow us to evaluate it more fully. The book will explore Kant's attempts to relate the a priori and the synthetic in the Introduction, Metaphysical Deduction and Analytic of Principles of the Critique of Pure Reason. Having developed this reading at length we will be able to re-assess Kant's relation to the work of Gilles Deleuze. Deleuze's critique of Kant and his tendency to make selective use of his work has so far characterised their relations. However, by reading Kant's Critique of Pure Reason in terms of its unifying method we will open up a new means of relating these two thinkers. Whilst Deleuze rejects many key Kantian concerns and concepts he embraces his methodological concern with the ability of problems to unify our thought. The problem-setting and forms of argument that emerge within Kant's architectonic method will be related to Deleuze's account of experience.
This book will contribute to both Kant and Deleuze studies on the basis of the reading of the Critique of Pure Reason it presents. By showing how Kant's text is to be read as a whole we will be able to challenge the conclusion that the arguments he makes ultimately rely upon a notion of 'subjective origin'. The problem of accounting for 'the actual' through it relation to 'the virtual' in Deleuze's thought will be re-assessed on the basis of his newly established relation with Kant. Understanding Kant's method in the Critique of Pure Reason will be shown to strengthen both his own account of experience and that offered by Deleuze.
Reviewed in Philosophy in Review.
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In the wake of much previous work on Gilles Deleuze's relations to other thinkers (including Bergson, Spinoza and Leibniz), his relation to Kant is now of great and active interest and a thriving area of research. In the context of the wider debate between 'naturalism' and 'transcendental philosophy', the implicit dispute between Deleuze's 'transcendental empiricism' and Kant's 'transcendental idealism' is of prime philosophical concern.
Bringing together the work of international experts from both Deleuze scholarship and Kant scholarship, Thinking Between Deleuze and Kant addresses explicitly the varied and various connections between these two great European philosophers, providing key material for understanding the central philosophical problems in the wider 'naturalism/ transcendental philosophy' debate. The book reflects an area of great current interest in Deleuze Studies and initiates an ongoing interest in Deleuze within Kant scholarship. | |||
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Notes on Contributors
Note on Translations and Abbreviations Used Editorial Introduction: On the Very Idea of Conditions of Thought, Matt Lee and Edward Willatt (University of Greenwich, UK) 1. The Philosopher-monkey: Learning and the Discordant Harmony of the Faculties, Patricia Farrell (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) 2. Deleuze’s Transcendental Empiricism: Notes Towards a Transcendental Materialism, Levi R. Bryant (Collin College, Frisco, USA) 3. Levelling the levels, Matt Lee (University of Greenwich, UK) 4. The Genesis of Cognition: Deleuze as a Reader of Kant, Edward Willatt (University of Greenwich, UK) 5. The Nature of Productive Force: Kant, Spinoza and Deleuze, Mick Bowles (University of Greenwich, UK) 6. Deleuze's 'Reconstruction of Reason': From Leibniz and Kant to Difference and Repetition, Christian Kerslake (Middlesex University, UK) 7. Transcendental Illusion and Antinomy in Kant and Deleuze, Henry Somers-Hall (University of Warwick, UK) 8. Transcendental Idealism, Deleuze and Guattari, and the Metaphysics of Objects, Michael J. Olson (Villanova University, USA) Bibliography Index Reviewed in Recensioni di filosofia.
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Reviews
Martin Heidegger's The Beginning of Western Philosophy: Interpretation of Anaximander and Parmenides (Philosophy in Review, 36. 3, 2016)
Claudo Romano's There Is: The Event and the Finitude of Appearing (Phenomenological Reviews, February, 2016)
Spencer Shaw's Film Consciousness: From Phenomenology to Deleuze (Film-Philosophy, 19, 2015, 98-104)
Martin Heidegger’s Basic Concepts of Aristotelian Philosophy (Philosophy in Review, 31.2, 2011)
Christian Kerslake's Immanence and the Vertigo of Philosophy: From Kant to Deleuze (Philosophy in Review, 30. 2, 2010, 101-4)
Joe Hughes' Deleuze and the Genesis of Representation (Philosophy in Review, 29. 6, 2009, 425-6)
Nick Hewlett’s Badiou, Balibar, Rancière: Re-Thinking Emancipation (Metapsychology Online Review, 12.24, 2008)
Eyal Peretz’s Becoming Visionary (Film-Philosophy, 12.1, 2008, 97-106)