A Geometry of Sufficient Reason: Space and Quantity in the Works of Spinoza, Leibniz, Bergson, Whitehead, and Deleuze

Cover
Half Title
Endorsements
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Abbreviations and Conventions
General Introduction
PART I: The Ubiquity of Each Thing
	Introduction
	1. The Rejection of Restrictive Essence: Spinoza and Leibniz
		1.1. The Traditional Notion of Restrictive Essence
		1.2. Absolute Rationalism
		1.3. The Rejection of General Knowledge
	2. Defined by Everything: Spinoza’s Reconception of Essence
		2.1. The Perspectival Difference Between Essence and Existence
		2.2. Modes as In Alio
		2.3. Individual Form as Affective Capacity
	3. A Mirror of the Universe: Leibniz’s Infinite Individuals
		3.1. Superessentialism
		3.2. Infinite Individuals
	4. A Concrescence of the Universe: Whitehead’s Actual Occasions
		4.1. The Reformation of Monadology: From Monads to Actual Occasions
		4.2. A New Spinozism: Actual Occasions as Modes of Creativity
		4.3. The Critique of Simple Location
	Conclusion
PART II: The Immanence of Space
	Introduction
	5. Leibniz’s Space of Individual Relations
		5.1. The Individuality of Actual Relations
		5.2. Ideal Space
		5.3. Actual Space
	6. Whitehead and the Immanence of Extension
		6.1. The Doctrine of Internal Relations
		6.2. The Development of Structure from the Uniform Scheme of Relationality
		6.3. The Actualisation of the Extensive Continuum
	Conclusion
PART III: A New Quantification of Nature
	Introduction
	7. Spinoza’s Concept of Quantity: Unique, Indivisible, and Infinite
		7.1. Unique
		7.2. Indivisible
		7.3. Infinite
	8. Leibniz’s New Quantification of Nature
		8.1. The Lack of Unity, Activity, and Difference in Cartesian Matter
		8.2. Monads Providing Unity, Activity, and Difference
		8.3. Nothing but Simple Substances
		8.4. The New Quantification of Nature: Monads as Degrees
	9. Bergson’s Philosophy of Degrees
		9.1. The Rejection of Intensive Magnitude
		9.2. Adopting Intensive Magnitude: Beyond the Quantity-Quality Dichotomy
	10. Deleuze’s Theory of Intensive Magnitude
		10.1. Intensive Magnitude as the Nature of Difference
		10.2. The Genesis of Quantity and Quality from Intensive Magnitude
	Conclusion
General Conclusion: A Geometry of Sufficient Reason
Glossary of Technical Terms
References
Index