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AT the Post-Kantian Philosophy EDGES of THOUGHT Deleuze and AT THE Post-Kantian Philosophy EDGES OF THOUGHT Trial layout. Image increased to 77% in size and turned to 300 Cover image: ‘Beat’ by Jorinde Voigt, 2009. Cover design: Michael Chatfield ISBN 978–0–7486–9462–4 Edited by Craig Lundy and Daniela Voss At the Edges of Thought Deleuze and Post-Kantian Philosophy Edited by Craig Lundy and Daniela Voss © editorial matter and organisation Craig Lundy and Daniela Voss, 2015 © the chapters their several authors, 2015 Edinburgh University Press Ltd The Tun – Holyrood Road, 12(2f) Jackson’s Entry, Edinburgh EH8 8PJ www.euppublishing.com Typeset in 10.5/13 pt Sabon by Servis Filmsetting Ltd, Stockport, Cheshire, and printed and bound in Great Britain by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon CR0 4YY A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978 0 7486 9462 4 (hardback) ISBN 978 0 7486 9464 8 (webready PDF) ISBN 978 0 7486 9463 1 (paperback) ISBN 978 0 7486 9465 5 (epub) The right of Craig Lundy and Daniela Voss to be identified as Editor of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, and the Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003 (SI No. 2498). Contents Acknowledgements vii List of Contributors viii Introduction: Deleuze and Post-Kantian Thought – Method, Ideas and Aesthetics 1 Daniela Voss and Craig Lundy Part I: Deleuze, Kant and Maimon 1. Deleuze, Kant and the Transcendental Field 25 Daniel W. Smith 2. The Problematic Idea, Neo-Kantianism and Maimon’s Role in Deleuze’s Thought 44 Anne Sauvagnargues 3. Maimon, Kant, Deleuze: The Concepts of Difference and Intensive Magnitude 60 Daniela Voss 4. Deleuze and Kant’s Critique of Judgment 85 Beth Lord Part II: Deleuze, Romanticism and Idealism 5. What is a Literature of War?: Kleist, Kant and Nomadology 105 Brent Adkins 6. The Calculable Law of Tragic Representation and the Unthinkable: Rhythm, Caesura and Time, from Hölderlin to Deleuze 123 Arkady Plotnitsky 7. Ground, Transcendence and Method in Deleuze’s Fichte 146 Joe Hughes vi At the Edges of Thought 8. ‘The magic formula we all seek’: Spinoza + Fichte = x 168 Frederick Amrine 9. State Philosophy and the War Machine 190 Nathan Widder 10. Tragedy and Agency in Hegel and Deleuze 212 Sean Bowden Part III: Deleuzian Lines of Post-Kantian Thought 11. Schopenhauer and Deleuze 231 Alistair Welchman 12. Feuerbach and the Image of Thought 253 Henry Somers-Hall 13. Deleuze’s ‘Power of Decision’, Kant’s =X and Husserl’s Noema 272 Jay Lampert 14. Kant’s Bastards: Deleuze and Lyotard 293 Gregg Lambert 15. Chronos is Sick: Deleuze, Antonioni and the Kantian Lineage of Modern Cinema 307 Gregory Flaxman Index 330 Acknowledgements First thanks must go to Sean Bowden, whose outstanding sympo- sium Deleuze, Pragmatism and Post-Kantian Thought, held at Deakin University (Melbourne) in December 2012, this collection first emerged from. Much that is good about this book is due to his early efforts and vision. An affiliated event,Continental Philosophy and Social Transformation, was also held at the University of New South Wales in late 2012, which provided a further forum for the development of several papers contained herein. For this we are grateful to the School of Humanities and Languages at the University of New South Wales and the Institute for Social Transformation Research at the University of Wollongong, who co-hosted this workshop. We have been blessed and honoured to work with an unquestionably first-rate cast of contributors on this project. Engaging with them and their ideas has been immensely rewarding, for which we would like to express our heartfelt thanks. Other academic colleagues/friends who are most deserving of our gratitude are Jon Roffe and Gregg Flaxman, for their astute intellectual guidance. Jorinde Voigt, whose work features on the cover, has been enormously generous in allowing us to associate her artistic brilliance with the Idea of this book. And of course, copious thanks must be extended to Carol Macdonald and the team at EUP for being so professional and such a pleasure to work with. Finally, the editors would like to thank Camden House for granting per- mission to reprint Frederick Amrine’s chapter ‘“The magic formula we all seek”: Spinoza + Fichte = x’, in Elisabeth Krimmer and Patricia Simpson (eds), Religion, Reason and Culture in the Age of Goethe (Rochester: Camden House, 2013). The same thanks are due to Wiley-Blackwell for granting permission to reprint Gregg Lambert’s piece ‘Kant’s Bastards: Deleuze and Lyotard’, Philosophical Forum, 43.3, (2012), pp. 345–56. In both cases there have been modifications made to the text. List of Contributors Brent Adkins is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Roanoke College in Salem, VA. He is the author of several books on Deleuze including Death and Desire in Hegel, Heidegger and Deleuze (2008), Rethinking Philosophy and Theology with Deleuze (2013), and Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus: An Introduction and Guide (2015). Frederick Amrine is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor in German Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His major publications include Goethe and the Sciences: A Reconsideration (1987) and Goethe in the History of Science (2 vols, 1996); recent studies have been devoted to aesthetics, Goethe’s Faust, and Rudolf Steiner. Sean Bowden is Lecturer in Philosophy at Deakin University, Australia. He is the author of The Priority of Events: Deleuze’s Logic of Sense (Edinburgh University Press, 2011), and the co-editor of Badiou and Philosophy (Edinburgh University Press, 2012) and Deleuze and Pragmatism (Routledge, 2014). Gregory Flaxman is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature and the Director of Global Cinema Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. The editor of The Brain is the Screen and the author of Gilles Deleuze and the Fabulation of Philosophy, his latest book (co-authored with Robert Sinnerbrink and Lisa Trahair) on ‘cinematic thinking’ will be published in 2014. Joe Hughes is a Lecturer in English and Theatre Studies at the University of Melbourne. He has written widely on Deleuze. His most recent work is Philosophy After Deleuze. List of Contributors ix Gregg Lambert is Dean’s Professor of the Humanities at Syracuse University, New York, and author of many books on the philosophy of Deleuze and on Continental Philosophy more generally; most recently, In Search for a New Image of Thought: Gilles Deleuze and Philosophical Expressionism (University of Minnesota Press, 2012). Jay Lampert works on the philosophy of time. His books include Synthesis and Backward Reference in Husserl’s Logical Investigations, Deleuze and Guattari’s Philosophy of History, and Simultaneity and Delay. His current book project concerns the futural noema of deci- sions. He teaches Philosophy at the University of Guelph and Duquesne University. Beth Lord is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen. She is the author of Kant and Spinozism: Transcendental Idealism from Jacobi to Deleuze, Spinoza’s Ethics: An Edinburgh Philosophical Guide and several articles on Kant and Deleuze. Craig Lundy is a Research Fellow in the Institute for Social Transformation Research at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He is the author of History and Becoming: Deleuze’s Philosophy of Creativity (Edinburgh University Press, 2012) and various papers on the philosophy of history, socio-political philosophy and European philosophy. Arkady Plotnitsky is a Professor of Theory and Cultural Studies at Purdue University. He has published extensively on Romanticism, con- tinental philosophy and the philosophy of mathematics and science. His most recent books are Epistemology and Probability: Bohr, Heisenberg, Schrödinger and the Nature of Quantum-Theoretical Thinking and Niels Bohr and Complementarity. Anne Sauvagnargues is a Full Professor at Paris West University. Her pub- lications include: Deleuze and Arts (Paris, 2005; Continuum/Bloomsbury, 2013); Deleuze, L’Empirisme Transcendantal (Paris, 2010; forthcoming English translation with Edinburgh University Press); and Ecology of Images: Simondon, Deleuze, Guattari (Edinburgh University Press, 2014). Daniel W. Smith teaches in the Department of Philosophy at Purdue University. He is the author of Essays on Deleuze (Edinburgh University Press, 2012) and the editor, with Henry Somers-Hall, of The Cambridge Companion to Deleuze (Cambridge University Press, 2012). x At the Edges of Thought Henry Somers-Hall is a senior lecturer in philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of Hegel, Deleuze and the Critique of Representation (SUNY Press, 2012), and Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition (Edinburgh University Press, 2013), and co-editor of the Cambridge Companion to Deleuze (Cambridge University Press, 2012). Daniela Voss lectures in philosophy at the Free University of Berlin and is an Honorary Fellow at Deakin University, Melbourne. She received her PhD at the Free University and is author of Conditions of Thought: Deleuze and Transcendental Ideas, published by Edinburgh University Press in 2013. Alistair Welchman is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at San Antonio. His edited collection Politics of Religion/Religions of Politics has just been published, and he has col- laborated on translations of Schopenhauer (Cambridge University Press) and Maimon (Continuum, 2010) as well as publishing a large number of articles. Nathan Widder is a Professor of Political Theory at Royal Holloway, University
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