Theatre of Production Philosophy and

This book provides both a historical analysis of the philosophical problem of individuation, and a new trajectory in its treatment. Drawing on the work of Gilles Deleuze, as well as C.S. Peirce and the lesser-known Gilbert Simondon, Alberto Toscano takes the problem of individuation, as reconfigured by Kant and Nietzsche, into the realm of modernity, providing a unique and vibrant contribution to contemporary debates in European philosophy.

Alberto Toscano is Lecturer in Sociology and a member of the Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process at Goldsmiths College, London.

Series Editor's Preface

vii

Acknowledgments

ix

Preface

x

Introduction: From the Intelligible to the Genetic

1

(18)

The ontology of anomalous individuation

1

(3)

Is there a science of the individual?

4

(3)

Univocity, haecceity and the birth of the object

7

(4)

Individuation and the ontological difference

11

(8)

Part I Kant Beyond Kant, or, The Anomalies of the Organic

1 The Paradoxical Object: On Self-Organizing Beings in the Critique of Judgment

19

(25)

1.1 The anomaly of self-organization

19

(6)

1.2 Defining nature

25

(2)

1.3 The object of cognition and the evidence of individuality

27

(5)

1.4 Causality and mereology in natural purposes

32

(5)

1.5 The Antinomy of Teleological Judgment and its ontological conversion

37

(3)

1.6 Analogy, contingency and the technic of nature

40

(4)

2 The Fate of Self-Organization: From Natural Machines to the Philosophy of the Organism

44

(41)

2.1 Materia soluta, materia ligata: individuation in Kant's Opus Postumum

44

(11)

2.2 Autonomy and allonomy: Kant's biophilosophical legacy

55

(5)

2.3 Events, prehensions and subjective aim: the philosophy of the organism

60

(18)

2.4 Remark on self-organization and transcendental philosophy

78

(7)

3 The Method of Nature, the Crisis of Critique: Life, Multiplicity and the Genesis of the Intellect in Nietzsche's Early Notebooks

85

(24)

3.1 April 1868

85

(3)

3.2 X = X

88

(6)

3.3 All unity is relative

94

(3)

3.4 Life force = ?

97

(7)

3.5 A materialism without matter?

104

(5)

Part II Elements for an Ontology of Anomalous Individuation

4 Systems of Habit: Ravaisson, James, Peirce

109

(27)

4.1 Habit as a method of nature: ambivalence and paradox

109

(7)

4.2 The sedimentation of desire and the canalization of matter: two images of habit

116

(7)

4.3 Chance, law, habit (the Monist papers)

123

(6)

4.4 'Possibilities beyond all multitude', or, Peirce's Continuum Hypothesis

129

(3)

4.5 The return to teleology and the temptations of spontaneity

132

(4)

5 Tertium Datur? Gilbert Simondon's Relational Ontology

136

(21)

5.1 Relation: disparation versus symbolism

136

(6)

5.2 Information: critique of the code

142

(5)

5.3 Interaction: beyond determinism and organicism

147

(4)

5.4 Transduction: search for a method

151

(6)

6 The Drama of Being: Figures of Individuation in Deleuze's Philosophy of Difference

157

(42)

6.1 Internal difference and the theory of multiplicities

157

(10)

6.2 Structuralism and individuation: static genesis and the paradoxical entity

167

(8)

6.3 The rhythms of immanence: haecceity, intensity, subjectivity

175

(5)

6.4 Functionalism and the ontology of relations

180

(7)

6.5 Asylum Ignorantiae?

187

(12)

Conclusion: Becoming Individual

199

(3)

Notes

202

(34)

References

236

(7)

Index of Names

243

(3)

Index of Concepts

246

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Theatre of Production Philosophy and Individuation between Kant and Deleuze

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