Perhaps more than any other philosopher, Deleuze has been pivotal for the recent ‘affective turn’ in philosophy and the humanities at large. Critics and proponents alike, however, have yet to appreciate the extent to which Deleuze himself remains profoundly ambivalent toward affect and embodiment in general. In this book, D. J. S. Cross argues that this ambivalence and its longevity have been overlooked because they only become apparent through a systematic analysis of affect throughout Deleuze’s work. By outlining how, from beginning to end, Deleuze’s system of thought both ruptures and complies with the tradition, Cross recalibrates Deleuze’s philosophy and the recent ‘affective turn’ that hinges upon it.
D. J. S. Cross argues that Deleuze's ambivalence towards affect and embodiment have been overlooked because they only become apparent through a systematic analysis of affect throughout Deleuze's work. Cross outlines how Deleuze’s system of thought both ruptures and complies with the tradition the recent 'affective turn' that hinges upon it.
Arvustused
This excellent book is a welcome counterpoint to the ubiquity that affect has acquired in much recent theorising. Cross not only illuminates key sources of the concept but, more importantly, problematises them in ways that give back to Deleuze some of the joy and inventiveness of his own philosophical method. * Aidan Tynan, Cardiff University *
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Adermatoglyphia
The Problem of Affect
Ambivalence
Itinerary
Notes
Part I. Ambivalence
1. The Royal Faculty
A Doctrine of Faculties
Transcendence
The Royal Faculty
The Original Origin
The Sensible Hitch
Implications
Notes
2. Furtive Contemplations
Extra Interiority
Dénouement
Organic Extension
Contemplating Chaos
Notes
3. Between Art and Opinion
Avant-Garde
Euthanasia
Major Minor Warp
Style Each Time
Notes
Part II. The Paradox of Spinoza
4. Spinoza, Socrates of Deleuze
The Paradox
A Character Study
Cause and Attribution
Indifference
Coronation, Transfiguration
Spinoza and Spinoza
Notes
5. Affectus Becoming lAffect
Existential Choreographies
The Antinomy of Affect
Betrayal
Immaterial Material
Notes
6. Deleuze and the First Ethics
One More Hitch
A Bizarre Sign
The Phenomenologist and the Pantheist
Select and Organise
Notes
Conclusion: The Body without Affects
Closing Negotiations
Conjurer laffect
Pre-Primary Emotion
Gilles Blanched
Notes
Bibliography
D. J. S. Cross is Assistant Professor in the Department of Languages, Cultures and Translation at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His first book, Deleuze and the Problem of Affect, was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2021. He has translated works by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Catherine Malabou and Pablo Oyarzun.
