Germinal Life: The Difference and Repetition of Deleuze

283 Pages·1999·4.01 MB·English

by  Keith Ansell Pearson

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GERMINAL LIFE
'GerminLailf cea rries forward Deleuze and Guatt.ui's project of 11 philosophy of vitality. in
creative dialogue with the latest developments in the sciences of life and theories of technology.
An innovative mediation at the boundary between philosophy, science, and cultural studies:
Brian Massumi, Australian NVaI/tiiroelrUsli! ty
'GermillLailf ies 11 brilliant-and critical-reworking of Deleuze. mapping 11 new tradition of
biophilosophy With this follow-up 10 Viroid KLeiitfh eA.ns ell Pearson has eSl1lblished himself as
one of Britain's most exciting young philosophers:
David Wood, VanderbUilllitl'r seit)'
This is a very imponalll book on a topic that is going 10 be of increasing importance over the
next several years. It addresses the overlapping audiences of continental philosophy. cultural
studies. critical theory and science studies to provoke a rethinking of the boundaries dividing life
from non-life, the human and the post-human (super and sub-human):
Elizabeth Grosz. SUNY atB uffalUoS.A
'Keith Ansell Pearson approaches the work of Gilles De1cuze with the precision of a diamond
cutter. exposing brilliant facets of thought "beyond the human condition",'
Stanley Shostak. U,,;ver.l'oifl yI 'illsburg"
Germinal Life: The Difference and Repetition of Deleaze ist he highly successful
sequetol Viroid Life: Perspectives OIlN ietzsche and the Transhumall Condition.
WhereV iroid Life provided a compellirneagd ing ofN ietzschpeh'isl osopohfyt he
human, Germinal Life is a highly original and incisive study of the biophilosophical
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GERMINALL IFE
The difference and repetition of DeIeuze
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First published 1999
by Routledge
II New Feuer Lane, London EC4P 4EE
This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2003.
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
29 West 35th Street. New York. NY 10001
© 1999 Keith Ansell Pearson
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Immanence can be said 10 be the burning issue of all philosophy
because it lakes on all the dangers that philosophy must confront, all
the condemnations, persecutions, and repudiations that it undergoes.
(G.Deleuze and F.Gual1ari, What is Philosophy? 1991)
This is an ancient and eternal story: what formerly happened with [he
Stoics stilI happens today. as soon as any philosophy begins to believe
in itself. It always creates the world in its own image: it cannot do
otherwise. Philosophy is the tyrannical drive itself, the most spiritual
will to power, to the 'creation of the world', to the causa prima.
(ENidzsche, Beyond Good and £I'il, I XX6)
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CONTENTS
Ackllow/edgemen/s
A note translatiolls
011 XII
Introduction: repeating the difference of Deleuze I
I The difference of Bergson: duration and creative evolution 20
Introduction 20
The method of inrllilioll 22
Inttlitioll alld duraTiofl 28
What i.� duration? 33
Bergson's Creative Evolution 40
De/euze alld the elan vital 65
Conclusion: Delellze beyond Bergson alld towards
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2 Difference and repetition: the germinal life of the event 77
imrodllcrioll 77
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