Deleuze and Becoming

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Deleuzes concept of becoming provides the key to his notoriously complex metaphysics, yet it has not been systematized until now. Bankston tracks the concept of becoming and its underlying temporal processes across Deleuzes writings, arguing that expressions of becoming(s) appear in two modes of temporality: an appropriation of Nietzsches eternal return (the becoming of the event), and Bergsonian duration (the becoming of sensation). Overturning the criticisms launched by iek and Badiou, with conceptual encounters between Bergson, Nietzsche, Leibniz, Borges, Klossowski, and Proust, the newly charted concept of double becoming provides a roadmap to the totality of Deleuzes philosophy. Bankston systematizes Deleuzes multi-mirrored universe where form and content infinitely refract in a vital kaleidoscope of becoming.

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Although becoming is one of the fundamental concepts in Deleuzes philosophy, Deleuze and Becoming is the first book to provide a systematic and detailed analysis of the new components Deleuze assigns to this ancient notion. Samantha Bankston shows how the concept evolved considerably throughout Deleuzes career, and argues that it received its most profound expression in Deleuzes readings of two temporal logics: Bergsons duration and Nietzsches eternal return. Along the way, Bankston provides insightful appraisals of various thinkers (Leibniz, Bachelard, iek, Badiou) and writers (Borges, Klossowski, Proust) that influenced or engaged with Deleuzes work. Bankstons writing is admirably lucid, and Deleuze and Becoming is destined to become a standard reference work on one of Deleuzes most complex concepts. -- Daniel W. Smith, Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University, USA
The fact that clarity and theoretical rigour is not lost over the course of a book ... ensures that Bankstons work will become a major reference point for any serious engagement with Deleuzes overall system of thought. -- Annual Review of Critical Psychology on Deleuze and Psychology * Alan Bristow *

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Samantha Bankston has published on continental philosophy and art and translated seminars given by Gilles Deleuze, is the translator of Anne Sauvagnargues' book, Deleuze and Art (Bloomsbury, 2013), and the author of the forthcoming book, Deleuze and iek.