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,