BADIOU’S DELEUZE This(cid:2)page(cid:2)intentionally(cid:2)left(cid:2)blank BADIOU’S DELEUZE JON ROFFE Routledge Taylor & Francis Group LONDON AND NEW YORK First published in 2012 by Acumen Published 2014 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, a n informa business © 2012 Jon Roff e Th is book is copyright under the Berne Convention. No reproduction without permission. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Notices Practitioners and researchers must always rely on their own experience and knowledge in evaluating and using any information, methods, compounds, (cid:1)or experiments described herein. In using such information or methods they (cid:1)(cid:1)should be mindful of their own safety and the safety of others, including (cid:1)parties for whom they have a professional responsibility. (cid:1)To the fullest extent of the law, neither the Publisher nor the authors, (cid:1)contributors, or editors, assume any liability for any injury and/or damage (cid:1)to persons or property as a matter of products liability, negligence or (cid:1)otherwise, or from any use or operation of any methods, products, (cid:1)instructions, or ideas contained in the material herein. isbn: 978- 1- 84465-508- 3 (hardcover) isbn: 978- 1- 84465- 5 09-0 (paperback) British Library Cataloguing- in- Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. L'histoire des hommes est la longue succession des synonymes d'un même vocable. Y contredire est un devoir. René Char This(cid:2)page(cid:2)intentionally(cid:2)left(cid:2)blank CONTENTS Abbreviations ix 1. Th e history of a disjunctive synthesis 1 2. Is Deleuze a philosopher of the One? 6 3. Method 24 4. Th e virtual 43 5. Truth and time 80 6. Th e event in Deleuze 104 7. Th ought and the subject 128 8. A singular palimpsest 160 Notes 163 Bibliography 189 Index 195 vii This(cid:2)page(cid:2)intentionally(cid:2)left(cid:2)blank ABBREVIATIONS Th e following abbreviations are used throughout. Where two page num- bers are listed, they refer to the English and French, respectively; any devia- tion from the published translation will be noted by the appendage of “tm”. Where no English translation is referred to, the translations from the French are my own. In addition, references to Spinoza’s Ethics will follow the stand- ard usage of indicating book, proposition followed by any required specifi - cation. Likewise, reference to Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason will be made to the respective pagination of the A and B editions. TEXTS BY DELEUZE AO Anti- Oedipus B Bergsonism DR Diff erence and Repetition DRF Deux Régimes de Fous: Textes et entretiens 1975–95 EPS Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza ES Empiricism and Subjectivity F Foucault FLB Th e Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque KCP Kant’s Critical Philosophy LS Th e Logic of Sense ID L’Île Déserte et Autres Textes M Masochism MI Cinema 1: Th e Movement Image N Negotiations NP Nietzsche and Philosophy PS Proust and Signs TI Cinema 2: Th e Time Image ix