Deleuze and Evolutionary Theory

Engages with the post-Darwinian biology central to Deleuze and Guattari's ecological form of thought

Deleuze and Evolutionary Theory gathers together contributions by many of the central theorists in Deleuze studies who have led the way in breaking down the boundaries between philosophical and biological research. They focus on the significance of Deleuze and Guattari's engagements with evolutionary theory across the full range of their work, from the interpretation of Darwin in Difference and Repetition, to the symbiotic alliances of wasp and orchid in A Thousand Plateaus. In this way, they explore the anthropological, social and biopolitical significance of the convergences and divergences between philosophy and evolutionary science.

Michael James Bennett is Faculty Fellow in the Humanities at the University of King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is the author of Deleuze and Ancient Greek Physics: The Image of Nature (Bloomsbury, 2017) and writes on the intersections between 20th-century continental thought, the history of philosophy and the philosophy of biology.

Tano S. Posteraro is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Philosophy at Penn State University. His current research concerns Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze as philosophers of biology against the background of the contemporary life sciences. He has published a number of articles on biological themes in Continental philosophy.