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The logic of expression : quality, quantity, and intensity in Spinoza, Hegel and Deleuze /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Duffy, Simon
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., [2006]
Series:Ashgate new critical thinking in philosophy.
Subjects:
Spinoza, Benedictus de, > 1632-1677.
Expression.
Deleuze, Gilles, > 1925-1995.
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, > 1770-1831.
Online Access:Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Spinoza and the problem of expression
  • Spinoza from the point of view of an idealist or a materialist dialectic
  • The differential point of view of the infinitesimal calculus
  • The metaphysics of the calculus: extensive quantity
  • From Scotist univocity to Spinozist immanence: intensive quantity
  • The distinction between intensive and extensive parts
  • Spinoza's theory of relations
  • The transformation of the characteristic relations of modal existence
  • The mechanics of joyful passive affections
  • The distinction between the duration of a finite existing mode and its eternity
  • The logic of expression and the construction of a philosophy of difference
  • Conclusion: expressionism in philosophy.