The Principles of Deleuzian Philosophy

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by  Koichiro Kokubun

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Plateaus – New Directions in Deleuze Studies
‘It’s not a matter of bringing all sorts of things together under a single concept but rather of
relating each concept to variables that explain its mutations.’
Gilles Deleuze, Negotiations
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Jean-Clet Martin, Variations: The Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, translated by Constantin V.
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Miguel de Beistegui, Immanence – Deleuze and Philosophy
Jean-Jacques Lecercle, Badiou and Deleuze Read Literature
Ronald Bogue, Deleuzian Fabulation and the Scars of History
Sean Bowden, The Priority of Events: Deleuze’s Logic of Sense
Craig Lundy, History and Becoming: Deleuze’s Philosophy of Creativity
Aidan Tynan, Deleuze’s Literary Clinic: Criticism and the Politics of Symptoms
Thomas Nail, Returning to Revolution: Deleuze, Guattari and Zapatismo
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Nadine Boljkovac, Untimely Affects: Gilles Deleuze and an Ethics of Cinema
Daniela Voss, Conditions of Thought: Deleuze and Transcendental Ideas
Daniel Barber, Deleuze and the Naming of God: Post-Secularism and the Future of
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Janae Sholtz, The Invention of a People: Heidegger and Deleuze on Art and the Political
Marco Altamirano, Time, Technology and Environment: An Essay on the Philosophy of
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Sean McQueen, Deleuze and Baudrillard: From Cyberpunk to Biopunk
Ridvan Askin, Narrative and Becoming
Marc Rölli, Gilles Deleuze’s Transcendental Empiricism: From Tradition to Difference,
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Guillaume Collett, The Psychoanalysis of Sense: Deleuze and the Lacanian School
Ryan J. Johnson, The Deleuze-Lucretius Encounter
Allan James Thomas, Deleuze, Cinema and the Thought of the World
Cheri Lynne Carr, Deleuze’s Kantian Ethos: Critique as a Way of Life
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Koichiro Kokubun, The Principles of Deleuzian Philosophy, translated by Wren Nishina
Felice Cimatti, Unbecoming Human: Philosophy of Animality After Deleuze, translated by
Fabio Gironi
Ryan J. Johnson, Deleuze, A Stoic
Forthcoming volumes
Justin Litaker, Deleuze and Guattari’s Political Economy
Nir Kedem, A Deleuzian Critique of Queer Thought: Overcoming Sexuality
Jane Newland, Deleuze in Children’s Literature
Sean Bowden, Expression, Action and Agency in Deleuze: Willing Events
Andrew Jampol-Petzinger, Deleuze, Kierkegaard and the Ethics of Selfhood
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THE PRINCIPLES OF DELEUZIAN
PHILOSOPHY
2
Koichiro Kokubun
Translated by Wren Nishina
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DURUZU NO TETSUGAKU GENRI
By Koichiro Kokubun
© 2013 by Koichiro Kokubun
Originally published in 2013 by Iwanami Shoten, Publishers, Tokyo
This English edition published 2020
By Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh
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English Translation © Wren Nishina, 2020
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Contents
Acknowledgements for the English Edition vi
List of Abbreviations vii
Translator’s Preface x
Prologue 1
1 Method: How to See Things in Free Indirect Discourse 9
Research Note I: On Naturalism 26
2 Principle: Transcendental Empiricism 28
Research Note II: The Synthetic Method 68
3 Practice: Thinking and Subjectivity 70
Research Note III: Law/Institution/Contract 98
4 Transition: From Structure to the Machine 100
Research Note IV: The Individual Soul and the Collective
Soul 141
5 Politics: Desire and Power 143
Research Note V: The State and Archaeology 187
Afterword 189
Bibliography 194
Index 199
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the principles of deleuzian philosophy
Acknowledgements for the English Edition
Those individuals who made the original Japanese publication of
this book possible I have already named in the ‘Afterword’ to this
volume. Here I should like to add to that list the names of those
whose assistance was indispensable in the preparation of this English
edition, the first of its kind for my work. In no particular order:
Ian Buchanan and Claire Colebrook, whose tireless work with the
Deleuze Studies series at EUP has given me the platform from which
to release this work; Carol Macdonald and Kirsty Woods, who have
had to put up with missed deadlines, unanswered emails, the whole
lot; Joff Bradley, who offered invaluable suggestions for improving
the manuscript; Tim Clark, for his meticulous work with the final
typescript; and lastly my translator Wren Nishina. And of course
you the reader, who alone can fulfil the solitary voyage that is the life
of the book.
K. K.
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List of Abbreviations
List of Abbreviations
Gilles Deleuze
B: Bergsonism, trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam,
New York: Zone Books, 1991; Le bergsonisme, Paris: PUF,
1966.
CC: Essays Critical and Clinical, trans. Daniel W. Smith and
Michael A. Greco, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota
Press, 1997; Critique et clinique, Paris: Minuit, 1993.
D: Dialogues II (with Claire Parnet), trans. Hugh Tomlinson and
Barbara Habberjam, London: Continuum, 2002; Dialogues,
Paris: Flammarion, 1977; new edition, 1996.
DI: Desert Islands and Other Texts 1953–1974, ed. David
Lapoujade, trans. Michael Taormina, New York:
Semiotext(e), 2004; L’île déserte et autres textes: textes et
entretiens 1953–1974, Paris: Minuit, 2002.
DR: Difference and Repetition, trans. Paul Patton, London:
Continuum, 2004; Différence et répétition, Paris: PUF, 1968.
ES: E mpiricism and Subjectivity: An Essay on Hume’s Theory of
Human Nature, trans. Constantin V. Boundas, New York:
Columbia University Press, 1991; Empirisme et subjectivité:
essai sur la nature selon Hume, Paris: PUF, 1953.
F: Foucault, trans. Seán Hand, London: Continuum, 2006;
Foucault, Paris: Minuit, 1986.
FLB: The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque, trans. Tom Conley,
London: Bloomsbury, 2013; Le pli: Leibniz et le baroque,
Paris: Minuit, 1988.
KCP: Kant’s Critical Philosophy: The Doctrine of the Faculties,
trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam, Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press, 1990; Philosophie critique de
Kant, Paris: PUF, 1963.
LS: The Logic of Sense, trans. Mark Lester with Charles Stivale,
ed. Constantin V. Boundas, London: Continuum, 2004;
Logique du sens, Paris: Minuit, 1969.
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list of abbreviations
MCC: M asochism: An Interpretation of Coldness and Cruelty,
trans. Jean McNeil, New York: George Brazillier, 1971;
Présentation de Sacher-Masoch: le froid et le cruel, Paris:
Minuit, 1967.
MI: C inema 1: The Movement-Image, trans. Hugh Tomlinson,
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986; Cinéma
1: l’image-mouvement, Paris: Minuit, 1983.
N: N egotiations 1972–1990, trans. Martin Joughin, New York:
Columbia University Press, 1995; Pourparlers 1972–1990,
Paris: Minuit, 1990.
NPh: N ietzsche and Philosophy, trans. Hugh Tomlinson, London:
Continuum, 1986; Nietzsche et la philosophie, Paris: PUF,
1962.
PS: P roust and Signs, trans. Richard Howard, Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press, 2000; Proust et les signes,
Paris: PUF, 1964.
SPP: S pinoza: Practical Philosophy, trans. Robert Hurley, San
Francisco: City Lights Books, 1988; Spinoza: philosophie
pratique, Paris: Minuit, 1981.
TI: C inema 2: The Time-Image, trans. Hugh Tomlinson and
Robert Galeta, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press,
1989; Cinéma 2: l’image-temps, Paris: Minuit, 1985.
TRM: T wo Regimes of Madness: Texts and Interviews 1975–1995,
ed. David Lapoujade, trans. Ames Hodges and Mike
Taormina, New York: Semiotext(e), 2007; Deux régimes de
fous: textes et entretiens 1975–1995, Paris: Minuit, 2003.
Félix Guattari
AOP: A nti-Oedipus Papers, ed. Stéphane Nadaud, trans. Kélina
Gotman, New York: Semiotext(e), 2006; Ecrits pour l’anti-
Œdipe, Fécamp: Lignes manifeste, 2004.
MS: ‘Machine and Structure’, in Molecular Revolution: Psychiatry
and Politics, trans. Rosemary Sheed, Harmondsworth:
Penguin, 1984; ‘Machine et structure’, in Psychanalyse et
transversalité: essais d’analyse institutionnelle, Paris: F.
Maspero, 1972; La découverte, 2003.
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List of Abbreviations
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
AO: A nti-Oedipus, trans. Robert Hurley, Mark Seem and Helen
R. Lane, London: Continuum, 2004; L’anti-Œdipe, Paris:
Minuit, 1972.
TP: A Thousand Plateaus, trans. Brian Massumi, Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press, 1987; Mille plateaux, Paris:
Minuit, 1980.
WPh: W hat is Philosophy?, trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Graham
Burchill, London: Verso, 1994; Qu’est-ce que la philoso-
phie?, Paris: Minuit, 1991.
N.B. citations will give first the page number of the English transla-
tion followed by the page number of the text in the original French,
e.g. (DR, 26/35).
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