Deleuze's Conception of Philosophy: Creation of Concepts

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Introduction: The Problems of the Deleuzian Conception of Philosophy
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Contents
Translator’s Foreword
Acknowledgements
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Part I Theory of Elements
	I Theory of the Concept
		1. Its Function
			A. The Virtual
			B. Consistency
			C. Differences from Criticism
				i. An Expanded Empiricism
				ii. From the Critical Philosophy to a Metaphilosophical Criticism
				iii. Constitution and Reconstitution
			D. Philosophy, Science and Art
			Conclusion
		2. The Concept’s Ontological Status
		3. Objectivity
		4. Concept and Event
		5. From Representation to Counter-Effectuation
		6. The Concept’s Singularity
		7. Multiplicity (or Endoconsistency)
		8. The Heterogeneity of Components
		9. The Concept’s Mutability or Historicity
		10. Mobility
		11. The Concept’s Exoconsistency, or Philosophy’s Systematicity
		12. Concepts, Functions, Affects
		Conclusion
	II The Plane of Immanence
		1. Philosophy’s Inauguration
			A. Image of Thought and Matter of Being
			B. Plane of Immanence and Concepts
			C. Philosophy’s Commencement and Philosophy’s Inauguration
			Conclusion
		2. Histories of Philosophy
			A. The History of Philosophy Is Not a Long Discussion
			B. The Time of Philosophy
			C. History of Philosophy and Philosophy of History
			D. One or Several Planes of Immanence?
			E. History of Philosophy and Metahistory of Philosophy
			Conclusion
	III Conceptual Personae
		1. The Agent of Philosophical Enunciation
		2. Distinction between the Conceptual Persona and the Literary Character
		3. Passage from the Conceptual Persona to the Literary Character
		Conclusion
Part II Theory of Creation
	IV Theory of Method
		1. The Problem of Method
		2. The Limits of Interpretation
		3. The Deleuzian Method
		4. A Bergsonian Method?
			A. Intuition as Method
			B. Space and Time
			C. The Empirical and the Transcendental
		Conclusion
	V The History of Philosophy
		1. The Problem of the History of Philosophy
		2. Difference and Repetition
			A. The Art of the Portrait
			B. Philosophical Collage
			C. Theatre of Philosophy
		3. Fidelity and Efficacy
			A. Falsification and Fictionalisation
			B. The Status of Objectivity
			C. A Classical Historiography
			D. The Two Histories and the Two Rules of Method
		Conclusion
	VI Philosophical Discourse
		1. Philosophy of Language and Philosophy of Literary Art
			A. The Postulates of Linguistics
			B. Literature as Language within Language
			C . Political Functions of Literature
		2. Philosophy as a Branch of Literature
		3. General Theory of Philosophical Discourse
			A. The Voice of Cutting-out
			B. The Name of the Concept
			C. The Enunciative Instance
			D. Case Analysis: Literary Genres in Nietzsche and Spinoza
		4. Deleuzian Discourse
			A. Solutions to the General Problems of Philosophical Discourse
				i. The Names of the Concept
				ii. The Enunciative Instance
			B. Particular Problems and Solutions in Deleuzian Discourse
				i. Expressing the Virtual
				ii. Expressing the Event
				iii. Expression of Multiplicity
		Conclusion
Part III The Philosophical Image of Thought
	Introduction
	VII The Dogmatic Image and the New Image of Thought
		1. Postulate of Commencement: The Principle of Cogitatio Natura Universalis
		2. Postulate of the Ideal: Common Sense; Postulate of the Model: Recognition
		3. Postulate of the Element: Representation
		4. That Which Forces Thinking
		5. From the Collaboration to the Concatenation of the Faculties
		6. ‘The Transcendental Landscape Comes to Life’
		7. Postulate of the Negative: Error
		8. Foolishness
		9. Postulate of the Condition: The Problem and Sense; Postulate of the Consequence: The Solution and the True
		10. The Genesis of Truth
		11. Postulate of the Result: Knowledge
		12. Apprenticeship and Culture
		Conclusion
	VIII Philosophical Thought
		1. Sign and Idea
		2. The New Image of Method
			A. Creation of Concepts and Construction of Problems
			B. Method and Culture
Conclusion: The Identity of Philosophy Faced with the Singularity of Philosophies
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