Deleuze and Pragmatism

This collection brings together the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and the rich tradition of Pragmatist thought, providing a model for pluralist, boundary-crossing scholarship. Contributors explore Deleuze's explicit and implicit relationship to American Pragmatism and investigate Deleuze's thought at those points which are of most conceptual interest to philosophers currently working in the tradition of Pragmatism. By bringing together Deleuze's philosophy and Pragmatist thought while remaining conscious of the differences between them, the collection aims to produce through a variety of conceptual frameworks capable of contributing to contemporary philosophical debate more broadly.

Preface Colin Koopman Introduction: Deleuzian Encounters with Pragmatism Sean Bowden, Simone Bignall and Paul Patton Part 1: Deleuze and Classical Pragmatist Thought 1. Infinite Pragmatics: Deleuze, Peirce, and the Habits of Things Jeffrey A. Bell 2. Barthes, Deleuze and Peirce: Pragmatism in Pursuit of the Sign James Williams 3. A More Radical Empiricism Gregory Flaxman 4. Error, Illusion, Deception: Deleuze against James Jon Roffe 5. Pluralism without Pragmatism: Deleuze and the Ambiguities of the French Reception of James Stéphane Madelrieux 6. 'Every existence is an event': Deleuze, Dewey, and Democracy Simone Bignall 7. Pragmatism and Difference: What's the Use of Calling Deleuze a Pragmatist? John J. Stuhr Part 2: New Pragmatisms 8. Redescriptive Philosophy: Deleuze and Rorty Paul Patton 9. The Rorty-Deleuze Pas de Deux Barry Allen 10. Antirepresentationalism and Objectivity in Rorty, Brandom and Deleuze Sean Bowden 11. Deleuze and the Pragmatist Priority of Subject Naturalism Simon B. Duffy 12. 'What Affects Are You Capable Of?': On Deleuze and Somaesthetics Wojciech Malecki and Simon Schleusener 13. Transcendental Pragmatics? Deleuze, Pragmatism and Metaphilosophy Jack Reynolds 14. Pragmatic Finitudes Claire Colebrook