Variations: The Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze

Boundas and Dyrkton have rendered an invaluable service by opening access to Jean-Clet Martin's important response to the work of Deleuze, a response that combines both philosophical rigour and poetic elegance with an insistence on demonstrating and relaying the conceptual multiplicity at the heart of Deleuzian philosophy, rather than merely commenting on it. Eugene W. Holland, Ohio State University Jean-Clet Martin, while being a distinguished philosopher in his own right, was one of the earliest and best interpreters of Gilles Deleuze's work. The letter-preface that Deleuze provided for the original French publication of Variations further testifies to the confidence that Deleuze had placed in him. In Variations, a book having gone through several editions in France, Martin offers a unique analysis of Deleuze's texts. Equally at home in Kant's critical philosophy, baroque art, the mathematics of the virtual and the Anglo-American novel, Martin delivers a philosophically rigorous and superb literary-style reading of Deleuze's work which will serve the student and the Deleuze scholar equally well. This is the first translation of Martin's work in English and as such is essential reading for anyone dedicated to the study of Deleuze. Martin has provided a new postscript for the translation, which brings his text into the present and anticipates his new work that will rekindle the discussion on Deleuze's relationship to Hegel. Jean-Clet Martin, while being a distinguished philosopher in his own right, was one of the earliest and best interpreters of Gilles Deleuze's work. He has since published eighteen books and has come to occupy a special place among contemporary French philosophers. Constantin V. Boundas is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Trent University, Ontario, Canada. He has translated and edited work on Deleuze for a number of years. Susan Dyrkton has worked regularly with Constantin Boundas. This translation is their first truly coll

Jean-Clet Martin is a philosopher. He is the author of several books that relate to the philosophy of aesthetics and science. Constantin V. Boundas is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Trent University, Canada. He is an editor and translator of the work of Gilles Deleuze, including an editor of Gilles Deleuze's The Logic of Sense (Columbia University Press, 1991) and translator of Gilles Deleuze's Empiricism and Subjectivity (Columbia University Press, 1991). Susan Dyrkton has worked with Constantin V. Boundas for over 20 years. This translation is their first truly collaborative effort.

Letter-Preface by Gilles Deleuze; Preamble; First Variation: Ethics and Aesthetics; 1. Battlefield; 2. Transcendental Empiricism; 3. Nomadology; Second Variation: Three Poetic Formulas for Nomadic Distribution; 4. Time out of Joint; 5. The Dicethrow; 6. 'The Garden of Forking Paths'; Third Variation: Multiplicities; 7. The Image of Thought; 8. Variations; 9. Poetics of Multiplicities; Fourth Variation: Malcolm Lowry or the Manifesto of Things; 10. The March toward Death; 11. Mannerisms; 12. For a Microphysics of Multiplicities; Postface to the Anglo-American Edition; Notes; Works by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari; Works Quoted in the Book; Index.