Deleuze, Whitehead, Bergson: Rhizomatic Connections [Hardcover]

This volume explores the relations between the work of Gilles Deleuze, Alfred North Whitehead and Henri Bergson. It examines the articulation between their concepts, methods and modes of philosophy. Themes are examined in the context of the contrasts, differences and conjunctions - the rhizomatic connections - between their shared concepts.Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Deleuze, Whitehead, Bergson: Rhizomatic Connections; K.Robinson Thinking with Deleuze and Whitehead: a Double Test; I.Stengers Language, Subjectivity and Individuality; M.Halewood Whitehead and Deleuze: Thinking the Event; A.Cloots The Emergence of a Speculative Empiricism: Whitehead Reading Bergson; D.Debaise Deleuze and Whitehead: The Concept of Reciprocal Determination; J.Williams Heterogenesis and the Problems of Metaphysics in Deleuze and Whitehead; A.Goffey Deleuze, Whitehead and the Reversal of Metaphysics; K.Robinson Whitehead and Deleuze on Creation and Calculus; J.C.Dumoncel Gilles Deleuze, Deleuze's Bergson, and Bergson Himself; P.Gunter A Whiteheadian Chaosmos?; T.Clark 'O bitches of impossibility!': Programmatic Dysfunction in the Chaosmos of Deleuze and Whitehead; R.Faber Glossary of 25 Key Terms; K.Robinson IndexTIM CLARK works as a freelance editor in the UKANDR? CLOOTS is Professor of Metaphysics at the Catholic University of Leuven, BelgiumDIDIER DEBAISE is Research Fellow at The Max Planck Institute for the History of Sciences and Visiting Professor at the Universit? Paris X Nanterre, FranceJEAN CLAUDE DUMONCEL taught logic and history of mathematics at the University of Caen and is member of the Academos team at the Archives Henri Poincar? at Nancy, FranceROLAND FABER is Professor of Process Theology at the Claremont School of Theology and Professor of Religion and Philosophy at the Claremont Graduate University, Co-Director of the Center for Process Studies and Executive Director of the 2007 newly founded Whitehead Research ProjectANDREW GOFFEY is Senior LeclCÏ