Deleuze and the Immanent Sublime: Idea and Individuation

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Shedding new light on Deleuze and Kants Critique of Judgment, Louis Schreel situates the importance of the Kantian sublime to Deleuzes overall metaphysics. To trace this lesser-known intellectual history, Schreel explores Deleuzes transcendental structuralism through central concepts of psychic individuation, transcendental ideas, and the experience of the sublime. Through this history, the concept of the sublime emerges in Deleuzes naturalistic philosophy in a timely and novel way. Not as a transcendent quality of human reason, but as an immanent quality of creative processes of self-organization in complex cognitive systems. In this way, Schreel provides a truly novel perspective on the philosophy of Kant and Deleuze, whilst opening up new areas of research between transcendental philosophy and cognitive science. Engagement with previously untranslated writings from French and German thinkers including Jean Petitot, Gilbert Simondon, Henri Maldiney and Erwin Straus, adds further breadth to the development of Deleuzes ideas on the sublime in this systematic study.

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Louis Schreel is Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences at Ghent University, Belgium.