Curriculum Vitae
Jeffrey A. Bell
Departmental address and phone Home address and phone History and Political Science 557 Pelican Ridge Drive Southeastern Louisiana University Madisonville, LA 70447 Hammond, LA 70402-0895 (985) 549-3918 email: [email protected]
Areas of Specialization European philosophy since Kant, Deleuze, Hume, Spinoza, intellectual history, political theory, aesthetics.
Education:
Ph.D., Philosophy, Tulane University, 1992. A.B., Philosophy, Occidental College, 1985.
Publications:
Books - Authored
Deleuze’s Hume: Philosophy, Culture and the Scottish Enlightenment (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009).
Philosophy at the Edge of Chaos: Gilles Deleuze and the Philosophy of Difference (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006).
The Problem of Difference: Phenomenology and Poststructuralism (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998).
Books - Edited
Deleuze and Things, editor, with Levi Bryant (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming).
Deleuze and History, editor, with Claire Colebrook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009).
Industrialization and Imperialism: 1800-1914. A Biographical Dictionary, editor (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2002).
Manuscripts in Preparation
Spinoza and the Problem of History
Conceptual Nomadism: an Intellectual History of Philosophy since Kant
Articles – Peer-Reviewed
“Between Realism and Anti-Realism: Deleuze and the Spinozist Tradition in Philosophy,” in Deleuze Studies 5.1, March, 2011: pp. 1-17.
“Beyond Beautiful and Ugly: Non-dual Thinking and Aesthetic Theory,” in Analysis and Metaphysics, Volume 9, 2010: pp. 19-34.
“Charting the Road of Inquiry: Deleuze’s Humean Pragmatics and the Challenge of Badiou,” The Southern Journal of Philosophy 44(3), 2006: pp. 399-425.
"The Director-function: Auteur theory and Poststructuralism," Fotogenia (Vol. 3, 1998). Translated into Italian and published under the title, “La funzione regista. La teoria dell’autore e il post-strutturalismo”
"Philosophizing the Double-Bind: Deleuze reads Nietzsche," Philosophy Today, Volume 39(4), Winter 1995.
"Phenomenology, Poststructuralism, and the Cinema of Time," in Film and Philosophy,Volume II. Translated into Italian and published as, “Il Cinema Del Tempo: Deleuze, la fenomenologia e la differenza,” in Deleuze E Il Cinema Francese (Milano: Associazione Culturale Mimesis, 2002), pp. 31- 50.
"Response to Jonathan Beller's Essay, 'Cinema: Capital of the Twentieth Century',"Postmodern Culture, Volume 5(1), September, 1994.
Chapters in Books
“Deleuze and Selfless Sex: Undoing Kant’s Copernican Revolution,” in Deleuze and Sex, edited by Frida Beckman (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011).
“Modes of Violence: Deleuze, Whitehead, Butler and the Challenges of Dialogue,” in On the Occasion: Butler on Whitehead (New York: Fordham University Press, 2011).
“Undoing the Subject: Deleuze and the Makings of a Sustainable Life,” in Issues in Sustainable Design (London: Routledge, 2011).
“Whistle While You Work: Deleuze and the Spirit of Capitalism,” in Deleuze and Ethics, edited by Nathan Jun and Daniel Smith (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010).
“Fear of Politics: Deleuze, Whitehead, and the Truth of Badiou,” in Event and Decision: Ontology and Politics in Badiou, Deleuze and Whitehead (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010).
“Nomad Thought: Deleuze, Whitehead, and the Adventure of Thinking,” in Secrets of Becoming: Negotiating Whitehead, Deleuze and Butler, edited by Roland Faber and Andrea Stephenson (New York: Fordham University Press, forthcoming 2010).
“Of the Rise and Progress of Philosophical Concepts: Deleuze’s Humean Historiography,” in Deleuze and History, edited by Jeffrey A. Bell and Claire Colebrook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009), pp. 54-71.
“Transcendence and Immanence: Voegelin and Deleuze on the Conditions for Political Order,” in Representation, Ethics, and Sources of Order in the thought of Eric Voegelin, Paul Ricouer, Emmanuel Levinas, and Gilles Deleuze. Peter A. Petrakis and Cecil Eubanks, editors. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2004), pp. 93-120.
“History in the Service of Life: A Dynamic Systems Approach to Intellectual History,” in Uniting the Liberal Arts: Core and Context, edited by Cainard Cowan and Scott Lee (New York: University Press of America, 2002), pp. 125-31.
Book Reviews
Gilles Deleuze’s Logic of Sense: A Critical Introduction and Guide, by James Williams, reviewd in the Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology (forthcoming).
Anti-Oedipus: A Reader’s Guide, by Ian Buchanan, reviewed in Symplokē (forthcoming).
“History Undone: Towards a Deleuzo-Guattarian Philosophy of History,” a review essay of Jay Lampert’s Deleuze and Guattari’s Philosophy of History, in Deleuze Studies Volume 2(1), 2008: 109-119.
Deleuze and Geophilosophy, by Mark Bonta and John Protevi, reviewed in The Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology Vol. 37 (2), May 2006: 221-2.
Publications - Miscellaneous
“Assemblage and Architecture,” in The Deleuze Dictionary – Updated Edition (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming)
Eight contributions to From Polis to Empire – The Ancient World. 800B.C. –500 A.D.Andrew Traver, editor. (Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 2001): “Anaxagoras ofClatomenae,” “Anaximander of Miletus,” ”Anaximenes of Miletus,” “Heraclitusof Ephesus,” “Parmenides of Elea,” “Sextus Empiricus,” “Socrates,” and“Thales of Miletus.”
"Thinking with Cinema: Deleuze and Film Theory," a review of Iris No. 23, Spring, 1997, in "Film-Philosophy: Electronic Salon," September 24, 1997 (www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/film-philosophy/files/writings.html).
Reviews of My Work
1. Philosophy at the Edge of Chaos: Gilles Deleuze and the Philosophy of Difference
Parr, Adrian. “Review Essay: Jeffrey A. Bell, Philosophy at the Edge of Chaos,” in Symplokē, Vol. 15, Numbers 1-2, 2007: 288-90.
Polat, Bican. “Review Essay: Philosophy at the Edge of Chaos: Gilles Deleuze and the Philosophy of Difference,” in MLN 122.5 (2008): 1204-1208.
2. Deleuze’s Hume: Philosophy, Culture and the Scottish Enlightenment
Bell, Martin. “Review Essay: Jeffrey A. Bell, Deleuze’s Hume: Philosophy, Culture and the Scottish Enlightenment,” in Hume Studies, Volume 35, Numbers 1 & 2, 2009, pp. 246-50.
Margarit, Emilian. “Review Essay: Whose Hume Is This? Jeffrey A. Bell, Deleuze’s Hume: Philosophy, Culture and the Scottish Enlighenment,” in Meta: Resarch in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, and Practical Philosophy, Vol I(2): 404-08.
Teaching Positions (past and current)
2007-present Professor of Philosophy, Southeastern Louisiana University
1999-2006 Associate Professor of Philosophy, Southeastern Louisiana University
1993-1999 Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Southeastern Louisiana University
Conferences and Presentations
“Conceiving Things,” presented at the Fourth International Deleuze Studies Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 28, 2011.
“What is a Concept?” presented as series of lectures at Fifth Annual Deleuze Camp, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 20-24, 2011.
“Between Realism and Antirealism: Deleuzian Metaphysics in the Style of Whitehead,” presented at the Metaphysics and Things conference in association with the Whitehead Research Project, Claremont, California, December 3, 2010.
“Deleuze and Speculative Realism,” presented at RMMLA in Albuquerque, New Mexico, October 14, 2010.
“Between Realism and Anti-Realism: Deleuze and the Spinozist Tradition in Philosophy.” Presented at Deleuze in Context Workshop as invited speaker, University of Dundee, September 24, 2010.
“Whistle While You Work: Deleuze and the Spirit of Capitalism,” a Plenary lecture delivered at the Second International Deleuze Studies Conference, Cologne, Germany, August 9, 2009.
“From Commonplace to Common Cause: Deleuze, Natural Rights and the Image of Politics,” Plenary lecture presented at the First International Deleuze Studies Conference, Cardiff, Wales, August 12, 2008.
“Fear of Politics: Deleuze, Whitehead, and the Truth of Badiou,” invited lecturer at the Event and Decision Conference, Claremont, December 7, 2007.
“The Time of Our Life: Deleuze, Culture, and Creative Events,” presented at the annual meeting for the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Chicago, November 8, 2007.
“Problems in History: Truth, Creativity, and Social Multiplicities,” presented as a Research Seminar at the Royal Institute of Philosophy, University of Dundee, September 27, 2006.
“Instituting Culture: Hume, Deleuze, and the Problems of the Scottish Enlightenment,” presented at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Edinburgh, September 26, 2006.
“Deleuze and Analytic Philosophy,” presented at the SEP-FEP Joint Conference, University of Dundee, September 9, 2006.
“Charting the Road of Inquiry: Experimental Philosophy and Difference in Hume, Peirce, and Deleuze,” presented at the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Salt Lake City, October 20, 2005.
“Competitive Association and Creative Genius: An Essay on Alexander Gerard’s Theory of Genius,” presented at the Third International Reid Symposium on Scottish Philosophy, Aberdeen Scotland, July 14, 2004. “Between Individualism and Socialism: Deleuze’s Micropolitics of Desire,” presented at the Association for Political Theory, Inaugural Conference, Grand Rapids, Michigan, October 17, 2003.
“Beyond Beautiful and Ugly: Non-dual Thinking and Aesthetic Theory,” presented at the Rocky Mountain Division of the American Society for Aesthetics, Santa Fe, New Mexico, July 13, 2003.
“Living Eternally: Spinoza on Self-Cause, Teleology, and Self-Preservation,” presented at the North American Spinoza Society, Pacific Division Meeting, San Francisco, March 23, 2003.
“Charting the Causes of Intellectual Creativity: The Case of the Scottish Enlightenment,” presented at the International Society for Intellectual History, Cambridge, England, July 27, 2001.
“The Symbolism of Chaos in Twelfth Century Europe,” presented at International Society for Intellectual History, Chicago, Illinois, September 22, 2000.
“Transcendence and Immanence: Voegelin and Deleuze on the Conditions for Political Order,” presented at American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., September 9, 2000.
"The Director-function: Auteur Theory and Poststructuralism," presented at the American Society for Aesthetics, Rocky Mountain Division, Santa Fe, New Mexico, July 17, 1998.
"Gilles Deleuze and Film: The Time-Image and the Impossibility of Thought," presented at the International Association of Philosophy and Literature, Irvine, California, May 7, 1998.
"Deleuze and Guattari, or On How to Become a Body Without Organs," presented at the European Studies Conference, Omaha, Nebraska, October 4, 1997.
"Montaigne as Core Text: Self-Discovery/Self-Creation," presented at the Association for Core Texts and Courses, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 11, 1997.
"Nietzsche's Music: Beyond Romanticism and Modernism," presented at the European Studies Conference, Omaha, Nebraska, October 4, 1996.
"Nietzsche, Music, and the Transcendental Deduction," presented at the 1996 Rocky Mountain Division of the American Society for Aesthetics, Santa Fe, NM, July 14.
"Deleuze and Cinema: Reversing the Tradition," presented at the 1995 meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Chicago, Il., October 14.
"Aesthetics: The Legacy of Montaigne," presented at the European Studies Conference,Omaha, Nebraska, October 6, 1995.
"Nietzsche on Being a Good European," presented at the European Studies Conference, Omaha, Nebraska, October 7, 1994.
“Phenomenology and the Cinema of Time,” presented at the Louisiana State Philosophy Convention, Baton Rouge, 1992.
Professional Memberships
Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy The American Philosophical Association International Association for Philosophy and Literature
Invited Evaluations of Ph.D. Dissertations
Supervisor: Dr. James Williams University: University of Dundee Dissertation: Philosophies of the Event: the Continuing Problems of Freedom and Subjectivity (2010) Candidate: Brian Smith
Supervisor: Dr. Jeffrey Malpas University: University of Tasmania Dissertation: Transformation in Knowledge: The Aristotelian Concepts of Actuality and Potentiality and the Cartesian Model (2009) Student: Andrew Piskun
Editorial Boards and Committees Edinburgh University Press – advisory editor Deleuze Studies – Editorial Board Analysis and Metaphysics – Editorial Board Review of Contemporary Philosophy – Editorial Board Whitehead Research Project (Claremont Graduate School) – invited research member Philosophy and Phenomenological Research – peer reviewer
Awards and Honors Southeastern Louisiana University’s 2010 President’s Award for Excellence in Research.
Fay Warren Reimers Distinguished Professorship, College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Southeastern Louisiana University, 2007-10.
Visiting Research Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Edinburgh (July – October, 2006)
C. Howard Nichols Professorship in History and Political Science (2002-2005)
Southeastern Louisiana University Faculty Development Grant (Summer 2001, Summer 2004).
Tulane University Graduate Fellowship (1986-87).
References Eric Schliesser BOF Research Professor Philosophy and Moral Sciences Ghent University Blandijnberg 2, Ghent, B-9000 Belgium [email protected]
Daniel Smith Associate Professor of Philosophy Purdue University Beering Hall 100 N. University St. West Lafayette, IN 47907 United States [email protected]
James Williams Professor of Philosophy Department of Philosophy University of Dundee Dundee Scotland, UK DD1 4HN [email protected]