Deleuze Beyond Badiou

Remarkably illuminating. That Crockett is able to make so crystal clear some of Deleuze's contested concepts is the result of years of patient labor over the philosopher's writings. -- Ward Blanton, University of Glasgow This is an interdisciplinary text of rare ability and power that takes the reader into not only a deeply considered discussion of two crucial thinkers but also carefully and skillfully explains the limits and possibilities in discussion. -- Mike Grimshaw, University of Canterbury The best examination so far of the vexed philosophical relationship between Badiou and Deleuze. Crockett constructs a philosophical framework that enables us to envisage the detailed and ramified terms of an engagement between two very powerful thinkers, and in so doing provides us with an indispensable text. -- Kenneth Surin, Duke University In this careful emancipation of Deleuze's work from the prism of Badiou's gaze, Crockett develops a coherent and original reading of Deleuze focusing on time and energetics. Beyond the perceived political failures of Capitalism and Schizophrenia, he restores the liberative potential of Deleuze's thought. -- Philip Goodchild, University of Nottingham

Restoring the reputation of a twentieth-century philosopher and his relevance to twenty-first-century political thought.First published in 1997, Alain Badiou's Deleuze: The Clamor of Being cast Gilles Deleuze as a secret philosopher of the One. In this work, Clayton Crockett rehabilitates Deleuze's position within contemporary political and philosophical thought, advancing an original reading of the thinker's major works and a constructive conception of his philosophical ontology. Through close readings of Deleuze's Difference and Repetition, Capitalism and Schizophrenia (with Felix Guattari), and Cinema 2, Crockett argues that Deleuze is anything but the austere, quietistic, and aristocratic intellectual Badiou had portrayed. Instead, Crockett underscores Deleuze's radical aesthetics and innovative scientific, political, and mathematical forms of thought. He also refutes the notion Deleuze retreated from politics toward the end of his life. Using Badiou's critique as a foil, Crockett maintains the profound continuity of Deleuze's work and builds a general interpretation of his more obscure formulations.