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Gilles Deleuze Expressionism in Philosophy, Spinoza

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Gilles Deleuze Expressionism in Philosophy, Spinoza

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Translated by Martin Joughin Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza Gilles Deleuze ZONE BOOKS » NEW YORK | 1990 {©1990 Urtone, Ine. microfilming, recording, or otherwise (except fr that ‘copying permitted by Sections 107 ad 108 ofthe U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewer forthe public press) without written permission rom the Publisher. ihed in France as Spinora etl probleme 1968 Les Editions de Mi of America, ibuted by The MIT Press, Cambridge, Masachusetts and London, England Library of Congress Cataloging in Publicsti Deleuze, Gilles. [Spinoza et le probléme de expression. Er Expressionism in philosophy: Spinoza / Gi Deleuze; translated by Martin Joughin. p.m, ‘Trandation of Spinoza et le probléme de Fexpression. iography :p. 2. Spinora, Benedict de, 1632-1677 Contributions in concept of expression, 2. Expression, 39996904515 1990 vyatap—dewy Part ONE Chapter Contents Translator’s Preface Introduction: The Role and Importance of Expression 13 ‘Tue Trias oF SuBSTANCE Numerical and Real Distinction 27 Attribute as Expression 41 Attributes and Divine Names 53 The Absolute 69 Power 93 PARALLELISM AND IMMANENCE Expression in Paral cy The Two Powers and the Idea of God 113 Expression and Idea 29 Inadequacy 45 Spinoza Against Descartes 185 Immanence and the Historical Components of Expression 169 IXX Tue THeory or Fintre Moves ‘Modal Essence: The Passage from Infinite to Finite 91 ‘Modal Existence 201 What Can a Body Do? 217 The Three Orders and the Problem of Evil 235 The Ethical Vision of the World 258 Common Notions 273 Toward the Thitd Kind of Knowledge 209 ' Beatitude 303 Conclusion: The Theory of Expresion in Leibniz and Spinoca: Expressionism in Philosophy 321 Appendix 337 Notes 381 Translator’s Notes 403 Index 429 Index of Textual References 437 Translator’s Preface ‘We discover new ways of folding, -,ut we are always folding, unfolding, refolding”: so ends Le Pli, Deleuze’s latest book, on Leibniz, his first major historical study of a philosopher since the present book was published twenty years before. Here the main hard, in the end, to say which is more impor- tant: the differences between Leibniz and Spinova in their evalua- tion of expression; or their common reliance on this concept i founding a Postcartesian philosophy.” Spinoza and Le different expressions of “expressionism in philosophy,” an expres- sionism characterized in this book as a system of implicatio and explicatio, enfolding and unfolding, implication and explication, implying and explaining, involving and evolving, enveloping and developing. Two systems of universal folding obtain: unfolded from the bare “simplicity” of an Infinity into which al things are ultimately folded up, as into a universal map that folds back into a single hil points in that map, each of which enfolds within its infinitely “complex” other such points, the unfo te relations being the evolution ofa Leibnizian Universe. ‘We are always involved in things and their implications and text closes: two Leibniz starts from the infinite 5

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