Gilles Deleuze`s Philosophy of Time A Critical Introduction and Guide
- Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 2011
- 205p
includes index and biblioraphy
1 Introduction 1 Why Gilles Deleuze`s philosophy of time? 1 The do`s and don`ts of time travel 7 The critical power of Deleuze`s philosophy of time 16 2 The first synthesis of time 21 The living present 21 Synthesis and method in the first synthesis of time 30 Of pebbles and their habits 38 The passing present 45 3 The second synthesis of time 51 A time within which time passes 51 The deduction of the pure past 59 Destiny and freedom 68 How to save all the past for us? 75 4 The third synthesis of time 79 From Descartes to Kant 79 Back to Plato 84 The pure and empty form of time 86 History, repetition and the symbolic image 95 Past and present as dimensions of the future 102 Transcendental dogmatism? 106 5 Time and eternal return 113 Only difference returns and never the same 113 Eternal return and death 118 Series and eternal return 124 Disparity and difference in eternal return 130 Time in Logic of Sense 134 Of wounds and time 134 How much, how and where? 138 Time and the surface between depths and heights 145 From principles to acts 154 Conclusion: the place of film in Deleuze`s philosophy of time 159