Theatre of Production: Philosophy and Individuation between Kant and Deleuze

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Series Editor’s Preface......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Preface......Page 11
The ontology of anomalous individuation......Page 16
Is there a science of the individual?......Page 19
Univocity, haecceity and the birth of the object......Page 22
Individuation and the ontological difference......Page 26
Part I: Kant Beyond Kant, or, The Anomalies of the Organic......Page 32
1.1 The anomaly of self-organization......Page 34
1.2 Defining nature......Page 40
1.3 The object of cognition and the evidence of individuality......Page 42
1.4 Causality and mereology in natural purposes......Page 47
1.5 The Antinomy of Teleological Judgment and its ontological conversion......Page 52
1.6 Analogy, contingency and the technic of nature......Page 55
2.1 Materia soluta, materia ligata: individuation in Kant's Opus Postumum......Page 59
2.2 Autonomy and allonomy: Kant's biophilosophical legacy......Page 70
2.3 Events, prehensions and subjective aim: the philosophy of the organism......Page 75
2.4 Remark on self-organization and transcendental philosophy......Page 93
3.1 April 1868......Page 100
3.2 X = X......Page 103
3.3 All unity is relative......Page 109
3.4 Life force = ?......Page 112
3.5 A materialism without matter?......Page 119
Part II: Elements for an Ontology of Anomalous Individuation......Page 122
4.1 Habit as a method of nature: ambivalence and paradox......Page 124
4.2 The sedimentation of desire and the canalization of matter: two images of habit......Page 131
4.3 Chance, law, habit (the Monist papers)......Page 138
4.4 'Possibilities beyond all multitude', or, Peirce's Continuum Hypothesis......Page 144
4.5 The return to teleology and the temptations of spontaneity......Page 147
5.1 Relation: disparation versus symbolism......Page 151
5.2 Information: critique of the code......Page 157
5.3 Interaction: beyond determinism and organicism......Page 162
5.4 Transduction: search for a method......Page 166
6.1 Internal difference and the theory of multiplicities......Page 172
6.2 Structuralism and individuation: static genesis and the paradoxical entity......Page 182
6.3 The rhythms of immanence: haecceity, intensity, subjectivity......Page 190
6.4 Functionalism and the ontology of relations......Page 195
6.5 Asylum Ignorantiae?......Page 202
Conclusion: Becoming Individual......Page 214
Notes......Page 217
References......Page 251
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N......Page 259
Z......Page 260
E......Page 261
M......Page 262
T......Page 263
W......Page 264