Περιγραφή
In The Fold Deleuze proposes a new radical way of understanding philosophy and art. Leibniz drew on the art of the baroque period in his invention of the concept of the fold; Deleuze develops the concept further to present a new way of practising philosophy based upon the fold as the relationship of difference with itself. (from the publisher) + Περιεχόμενα I. The Fold 1. The pleats of matter The fold that goes to infinity - The Baroque home - the lower floor: matter, elastic forces, springs - Organism and plastic forces - Organic folds - Why another floor is needed, a problem of the animal soul - The elevation of reasonable souls, and its organic and inorganic consequences 2. The folds in the soul Inflection - Singularities - Baroque mathematics and variation: the irrational number, the differential quotient, the family of curvatures - The new status of the object - Perspectivism: variation and point of view - The new status of the subject - From inflection to inclusion - The subdivision - The monad, the world, and the condition of closure 3. What is Baroque? The room without windows - The inside and the outside, the high and the low - Heidegger, Mallarme, and the fold -Baroque light - The search for a concept - The six esthetic qualities of the Baroque - Modern or abstract art: textures and folded forms II. Inclusions 4. Sufficient reason Events or predicates - The four classes of beings, the genres of predicates, the nature of subjects, the modes of inclusions, the case of infinity, the corresponding principles - Leibniz's mannerism - The predicate is not an attribute - The five criteria of substance - Styles and depth - The play of principles 5. Incompossibility, individuality, liberty Incompossibility or the divergence of series - The Baroque narrative - Preindividual and individual singularities - The play of the Baroque world - Optimism, the world's misery, and Mannerism - The question of human liberty - A phenomenology of motifs - Inclusion of the predicate and the living present - Leibniz and Bergson: movement as it happens - Baroque damnation 6. What is an event? Whitehead the successor - Extension, intensity, the individual - Prehensions and monads - Eternal objects - The concert - Modern Leibnizianism: suppression of the condition of closure, and the neo-Baroque III. Having a Body 7. Perception in the folds The requirement of having a body - First stage of deduction: from the world to perception in the monad - Minute perceptions: the ordinary and the remarkable - Differential relations - Recapitulation of singularities - Psychic mechanism and hallucinatory perception - Dusts and folds in the soul - Second stage: from perception to the organic body - What does perception look like? - Organs and vibrations: the physical mechanism of excitation - Pleats of matter - The status of calculus 8. The two floors The two halves: the ones and the others, the 'each' and 'every' - Mathematics of halves - The role of the extrema - Virtual-present, possible-real: the event - Leibniz and Husserl: the theory of appurtenances - Body and soul: appurtenance inverted, provisional appurtenances - Domination and vinculum - The three species of monads: dominant, dominated, defective - Crowds, organisms, and heaps - Force - Private and public - Where does the fold go? 9. The new harmony Baroque clothing and matter clothed - The fold to infinity: painting, sculpture, architecture, and theatre - The unity of the arts - The world as a cone: allegory, emblem, and device -Leibniz's concettism - Music or higher unity - Harmonics: the monad as number - Theory of accords - The two aspects of harmony: spontaneity and concertation - Harmony, melody, and Baroque music Notes Index +