Deleuze and History

Jeffrey A. Bell is Professor of Philosophy at Southeastern Louisiana University. Professor of English at Penn State University. She is the author of New Literary Histories (1997), Gilles Deleuze (2002), Understanding Deleuze (2002), Irony in the Work of Philosophy (2002), Gender (2003) and Irony: The New Critical Idiom (2003) and the co-editor of Deleuze and Feminist Theory (1999). James Williams is Professor of European Philosophy at the University of Dundee. He has published widely on Deleuze, including Gilles Deleuze's Logic of Sense: a Critical Introduction and Guide (Edinburgh University Press, 2008), The Transversal Thought of Gilles Deleuze: Encounters and Influences (Manchester: Clinamen, 2005) and Gilles Deleuze's Difference and Repetition: a Critical Introduction and Guide (Edinburgh University Press, 2003)

Introduction, Claire Colebrook; 1. Events, Becoming and History, Paul Patton; 2. Of the Rise and Progress of Philosophical Concepts, Deleuze's Humean Historiography, Jeff Bell; 3. Theory of Delay in Balibar, Freud, and Deleuze, Decalage, Nachtraglichkeit, Retard, Jay Lampert; 4. Geohistory and hydro-bio-politics, John Protevi; 5. The Thought of History in Benjamin & Deleuze, Tim Flanagan; 6. The Cannibal Within, White Men and the Embodiment of Evolutionary Time, Eve Bischoff; 7. Ageing, Pperpetual Perishing and the Event as Pure novelty, Peguy, Whitehead and Deleuze on time and history, James Williams; 8. Cinema, chronos/cronos, becoming an accomplice to the impasse of history, David Deamer; 9. Deleuze's Untimely, Uses and Abuses in the Appropriation of Nietzsche, Craig Lundy; 10. Is Anti-Oedipus a May '68 book?, Ian Buchanan; 11. Molar Entities and Molecular Populations in Human History, Manuel DeLanda; Notes on Contributors; Index.