Germinal Life by Ansell-Pearson, Keith -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Halftitle Title Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgements A note on translations Introduction: repeating the difference of Deleuze 1 The difference of Bergson: duration and creative evolution

Introduction The method of intuition Intuition and duration What is duration? Bergson’s Creative Evolution Deleuze and the élan vital Conclusion: Deleuze beyond Bergson and towards an ethics of creative evolution

2 Difference and repetition: the germinal life of the event

Introduction Transcendental encounters Individuation: Simondon and the difference of Darwin Ethics after individuation The phenomenon of repetition and the three syntheses of time The death-drive: Freud’s reworking of Weismann The heredity of the crack and Nietzsche’s superior return Staging the event Conclusion: Deleuze beyond Weismann and the problem of the event

3 The memories of a Bergsonian: from creative evolution to creative ethology

Introduction Complexity and the organism The body without organs and the organism What is a multiplicity? Bergsonism and neo-Darwinism Nature as a plane of consistency Creative involution Autopoiesis and machinic heterogenesis From an ethology of behaviour to an ethology of assemblages Becomings—animal of the human On the advantages and disadvantages of Deleuze’s reading of Uexküll Becomings beyond memory Conclusion: philosophy as absolute deterritorialization

Conclusion: fold and superfold

Deleuze’s return to the fold Beyond the human?

Notes Bibliography Index