Overview
Provides the first critical close reading of Deleuze’s complex and understudied final monograph
Situates the baroque ‘crisis of reason’ within ongoing research on religion, art, and nature in post-Kantian philosophy
Underlines the links between key Platonic, Leibnizian, Kantian influences that inform contemporary theory in terms of metaphysics, philosophical aesthetics, and process thought
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book, itself a study of two books on the Baroque, proposes a pair of related theses: one interpretive, the other argumentative. The first, enveloped in the second, holds that the significance of allegory Gilles Deleuze recognized in Walter Benjamin’s 1928 monograph on seventeenth century drama is itself attested in key aspects of Kantian, Leibnizian, and Platonic philosophy (to wit, in the respective forms by which thought is phrased, predicated, and proposed).The second, enveloping the first, is a literalist claim about predication itself – namely, that the aesthetics of agitation and hallucination so emblematic of the Baroque sensibility (as attested in its emblem-books) adduces an avowedly metaphysical ‘naturalism’ in which thought is replete with predicates. Oriented by Barbara Cassin’s development of the concerted sense in which homonyms are critically distinct from synonyms, the philosophical claim here is that ‘the Baroque’ names the intervallic [διαστηµατική] relation that thought establishes between things. On this account, any subject finds its unity in a concerted state of disquiet – a state-rempli in which, phenomenologically speaking, experience comprises as much seeing as reading (as St Jerome encountering Origen’s Hexapla).
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Tim Flanagan is a Lecturer in Philosophy at Murdoch University, Australia. He completed his PhD in Scotland under the UK’s ‘Overseas Research Students Awards Scheme’ and works on philosophical aesthetics and the critical reception of metaphysics. He is co-editor, along with Wahida Khandker, of the series Palgrave Perspectives on Process Philosophy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Baroque Naturalism in Benjamin and Deleuze
Book Subtitle: The Art of Least Distances
Authors: Tim Flanagan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66398-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-66397-1Published: 19 October 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-66400-8Published: 20 October 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-66398-8Published: 18 October 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 288
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Continental Philosophy, Aesthetics