Gilles Deleuze's Philosophy of Time: A Critical Introduction and Guide Paperback - 2011 - 1st Edition

Williams offers us a remarkable book - not only has he produced a Critical Introduction to the famous (and famously difficult) three syntheses of time, he has also invested in its implications to show us its centrality as a 'process philosophy of time'. This book renews the meaning of Deleuze's early philosophy and invites the reader to rethink its relation to the promise of a new future in his later work with Guattari.

Eric Alliez, Professor of Contemporary French Philosophy, Kingston University

Throughout his career, Deleuze developed a series of original philosophies of time and applied them successfully to many different fields. Now James Williams presents Deleuze's philosophy of time as the central concept that connects his philosophy as a whole.

Through this conceptual approach, the book covers all the main periods of Deleuze's philosophy: the early studies of Hume, Nietzsche, Kant, Bergson and Spinoza, the two great philosophical works, Difference and Repetition and Logic of Sense, the Capitalism and Schizophrenia works with Guattari, and the late influential studies of literature, film and painting.

The result is an important reading of Deleuze and the first full interpretation of his philosophy of time.

James Williams is Professor of European Philosophy at the University of Dundee. He has published widely on Deleuze, including Gilles Deleuze's Logic of Sense: A Critical Introduction and Guide (EUP, 2008), The Transversal Thought of Gilles Deleuze: Encounters and Influences (Clinamen, 2005) and Gilles Deleuze's Difference and Repetition: A Critical Introduction and Guide (EUP, 2003).