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Introduction to the Philosophy of Giles Deleuze to P. G. truly an event Introduction to the Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze JEAN KHALFA continuum LONDON • NEW YORK This book is supported by the French Ministry for Foreign Affairs, as part of the Burgess programme headed for the French Embassy in London by the Institut Francais du Royaume-Uni. Liberte • fegaliti • Fraternit^ RSPUBLIQUE FRANCAISE Continuum The Tower Building, 11 York Road, London SE1 7NX 370 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10017-6503 Editorial material © Jean Khalfa Essays © contributors 'Absolute Immanence' by Giorgio Agamben was originally published in Potentialities, Collected Essays in Philisophy by Giorgio Agamben, © 1999 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr University, and is published here with the permission of Stanford University Press. 'Immanence: a Life ..." by Giles Deleuze is published here with the permission of Editions Minuit. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN: 0-8264-5995-1 (hardback) 08264-5996-X (paperback) Typeset by YHT Ltd, London Printed and bound in Great Britain by Bookcraft (Bath) Ltd, Midsomer Norton, Somerset Contents Contributorsl vii Acknowledgements viii Abbreviations ix Introduction 1 I Philosophy 7 1 The Plane of Immanence and Life Bento Prado Jr 9 2 Intensity, or. the 'Encounter' Juliette Simont 26 3 Nietzsche and Spinoza: New Personae in a New Plane of Thought Jonathan Philippe 50 4 An Impersonal Consciousness Jean Khalfa 64 II Art 83 5 The Time(s) of the Cinema Alain Menil 85 6 Deleuze and Anglo-American Literature: Water, Whales and Melville Mary Bryden 105 7 Minority, Territory, Music Ronald Bogue 114 8 Empiricism Unhinged: from the Logic of Sense to the Logic of Sensation Claude Imbert 133 vi Contents III Life 149 9 Absolute Immanence Giorgio Agamben 151 10 Immanence: a Life ... Gilles Deleuze 170 Notes 174 Bibliography 203 Index 207 Contributors Giorgio Agamben (Professor of Philosophy, University of Verona) Ronald Bogue (Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Georgia) Mary Bryden (Senior Lecturer in French, University of Reading) Claude Imbert (Professor of Philosophy, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris) Jean Khalfa (Lecturer in French, Trinity College, Cambridge) Alain Menil (Professor of Philosophy, Lettres Superieures, Lycee Montaigne) Jonathan Philippe (Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique, Brussels, Belgium) Bento Prado Jr (Professor, Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brazil) Juliette Simont (Senior Research Fellow, Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique, Brussels, Belgium) Acknowledgements Thanks of course, are due to many. Singularly helpful were Andrew Brown, for his help with the English version of my texts; Libby Saxton, who compiled the index; the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in London, who supported part of the cost of the translations; Trinity College, Cam- bridge, for giving me the necessary time; Giorgio Agamben; Laura Cordy; Marylou Khalfa; Kevin Nolan; Emma Wagstaff; Katherine Savage for her careful re-reading, and Tristan Palmer, the most patient of publishers. Abbreviations A Thousand Plateaus (TP) (tr. Brian Massumi; London: Athlone Press, 1988) Anti-Oedipus (AO) (tr. Robert Hurley, Mark Seem, and Helen R. Lane; London: Athlone Press, 1984) Bergsonism (B) (tr. Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam; New York: Zone, 1988) Cinema 1: The Movement-Image (MI) (tr. Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam; London: Athlone Press, 1992) Cinema 2: The Time-Image (TI) (tr. Hugh Tomlinson and Robert Galeta; London: Athlone Press, 1989) Dialogues (D) (tr. Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam; London: Athlone Press, 1987) Difference and Repetition (DR) (tr. Paul Patton; London: Athlone Press, 1994) Empiricism and Subjectivity (ES) (tr. Constantin V. Boundas; New York, Oxford: Columbia University Press, 1991) Essays Critical and Clinical (ECC) (tr. Daniel W. Smith and Michael A. Greco; Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997) Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza (EP) (tr. Martin Joughin; New York: Zone Books, 1990) Foucault (F) (tr. and ed. Sean Hand; London: Athlone Press, 1988) Francis Bacon: logique de la sensation (FB) (Paris: La Difference, 1981) Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature (K) (tr. Dana Polan; Minneapolis: Uni- versity of Minnesota Press, 1986) Kant's Critical Philosophy (KCP) (tr. Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habber- jam; London: Athlone Press, 1983) Masochism (M) (tr. Jean McNeil; New York: Zone Books, 1989) Negotiations (N) (tr. Martin Joughin; New York, Chichester: Columbia University Press, 1995) Nietzsche (N) (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1965) Nietzsche and Philosophy (NP) (tr. Hugh Tomlinson; London: Athlone Press, 1983)