Current Continental Theory and Modern Philosophy

Contents

Preface vii Stephen H. Daniel Introduction xi Stephen H. Daniel Machiavelli, Historical Repetition, and French Philosophies of Difference 3 Miguel Vatter Truth and Evidence in Descartes and Levinas 21 Leslie MacAvoy Le Doeuff and Irigaray on Descartes 36 Anthony David Between Pascal and Spinoza: The Vacuum 58 Pierre Macherey Potentia multitudinis, quae una veluti mente ducitur: Spinoza on the Body Politic 70 Etienne Balibar Spinoza and Materialism 100 Susan James Deleuze’s Spinoza: Thinker of Difference, or Deleuze against the Valley Girls 114 Todd May Deleuze on Leibniz: Difference, Continuity, and the Calculus 127 Daniel W. Smith On the Function of the Concept of Origin: Althusser’s Reading of Locke 148 Warren Montag Contents Locke and the Event of Appropriation: A Heideggerian Reading of “Of Property” 162 Robert Bernasconi From Kristeva to Deleuze: The Encyclopedists and the Philosophical Imaginary 179 Katherine Arens Deleuze’s Hume and Creative History of Philosophy 197 Jay Conway Althusser and Hume: A Materialist Encounter 210 Joel Reed Loving the Impossible: Derrida, Rousseau, and the Politics of Perfectibility 223 Penelope Deutscher “What We Cannot Say”: Gadamer, Kant, and Freedom 240 Dennis J. Schmidt The Art of Begetting Monsters: The Unnatural Nuptials of Deleuze and Kant 254 Constantin Boundas Index 281 Notes on Contributors 289 ...