Louis Schreel, "Deleuze and the Immanent Sublime: Idea and Individuation"
English | ISBN: 1350344885 | 2024 | 216 pages | EPUB, PDF | 504 KB + 3 MB
English | ISBN: 1350344885 | 2024 | 216 pages | EPUB, PDF | 504 KB + 3 MB
What becomes of the sublime today, in a philosophy that discards the old oppositions between body and mind and embeds human reason in the creative evolution of life? In this book, Louis Schreel shows how Gilles Deleuze's life-long engagement with the Kantian sublime grappled with just this question. Its core argument centres on Deleuze's understanding of the sublime in terms of psychic individuation – a creative, self-organizing process that animates cognitive systems from within.
Exploring Deleuze's transcendental philosophy through central concepts of self-organization, psychic individuation, passibility and infinity, this book shows how a new notion of the sublime emerges in a timely and novel way. In this way, Deleuze and the Immanent Sublime
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