Contents

Preface: From Philosophy to Philosophies: Prefatory Notes on Deleuzianism and Pragmatism

COLIN KOOPMAN

Acknowledgments

Deleuzian Encounters with Pragmatism

SEAN BOWDEN, SIMONE BIGNALL, PAUL PATTON

PART I Deleuze and Classical Pragmatist Thought

1 Infinite Pragmatics: Deleuze, Peirce, and the Habits of Things

JEFFREY A. BELL

2 Barthes, Deleuze, and Peirce: Pragmatism in Pursuit of the Sign

JAMES WILLIAMS

3 A More Radical Empiricism

GREGORY FLAXMAN

4 Error, Illusion, Deception: Deleuze against James

JON ROFFE

5 Pluralism without Pragmatism: Deleuze and the Ambiguities of the French Reception of James

STÉPHANE MADELRIEUX

6 “Every Existence Is An Event”: Deleuze, Dewey, and Democracy

SIMONE BIGNALL

7 Pragmatism and Difference: What’s the Use of Calling Deleuze a Pragmatist?

JOHN J. STUHR

PART II New Pragmatisms

8 Redescriptive Philosophy: Deleuze and Rorty

PAUL PATTON

9 The Rorty-Deleuze Pas de Deux

BARRY ALLEN

10 Antirepresentationalism and Objectivity in Rorty, Brandom, and Deleuze

SEAN BOWDEN

11 Deleuze and the Pragmatist Priority of Subject Naturalism

SIMON B. DUFFY

12 “What Affects Are You Capable Of?” On Deleuze and Somaesthetics

WOJCIECH MAŁECKI AND SIMON SCHLEUSENER

13 Transcendental Pragmatics? Deleuze, Pragmatism, and Metaphilosophy

JACK REYNOLDS

14 Pragmatic Finitudes

CLAIRE COLEBROOK

List of Contributors

Index