The logic of expression : quality, quantity, and intensity in Spinoza, Hegel and Deleuze /

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Author / Creator:Duffy, Simon.
Imprint:Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., c2006.
Description:x, 284 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Ashgate new critical thinking in philosophy
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6203733
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ISBN:0754656187 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780754656180
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-276) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Spinoza and the problem of expression
  • Spinoza from the point of view of an idealist or a materialist dialectic
  • The differential point of view of the infinitesimal calculus
  • The metaphysics of the calculus: extensive quantity
  • From Scotist univocity to Spinozist immanence: intensive quantity
  • The distinction between intensive and extensive parts
  • Spinoza's theory of relations
  • The transformation of the characteristic relations of modal existence
  • The mechanics of joyful passive affections
  • The distinction between the duration of a finite existing mode and its eternity
  • The logic of expression and the construction of a philosophy of difference
  • Conclusion: expressionism in philosophy
  • Bibliography
  • Index