Jon Roffe
Biographic Data
| ID | 1340170 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jon Roffe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jon |
| FAMILY NAME | Roffe |
| SIGNATURE | ROFFE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Deleuze's Philosophical Lineage II
16 chapters by new and established Deleuze scholars each explore one key figure in Deleuze’s philosophical heritage Explains the influence of 16 thinkers to Deleuze's philosophical project: how Deleuze draws on and responds to their work Introduces important continental thinkers largely unknown in English-speaking countries, such as Henri Maldiney, George Dumézil, Charles Péguy and Pierre Clastres Clarifies the synthetic method that Deleuze used …
Instinct, Consciousness, Life
The question of Ruyer's relationship to Bergson remains under-theorized. This article attempts to address that problem by introducing a little-known essay written by Ruyer on the topic of Bergson's theory of vital sympathy, "Bergson et le Sphex ammophile," which appeared in 1959, one year after the publication of La Genèse des formes vivantes and the completion of Ruyer's systematic philosophy of biology. An English translation of the essay appea…
Form IV
From the point of view of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, Raymond Ruyer's work appears to bear out two distinct tendencies of unequal appeal. On the one hand, Ruyer appears to be an anti-Aristotelian thinker of formation, rejecting any hylomorphic account of the production of reality. However, and notably despite his serious commitment to the work of the sciences of his day, he remains wedded to the ultimately conservative Leibnizian principle …
Gilles Deleuze's Empiricism and Subjectivity
Guides you through Gilles Deleuze's first book, with its striking reading of David HumeJon Roffe shows how Empiricism and Subjectivity is the precursor for some of Deleuze's most well-known philosophical innovations. For those already familiar with Deleuze, he emphasises its novelty within his corpus. And, for all readers, he shows how it outlines Deleuze's powerful and striking theory of subjectivity, and of philosophy itself.Empiricism and Subj…
Deleuze's Concept of Quasi-cause
The concept of quasi-cause is a relatively marginal one in the work of Gilles Deleuze, appearing briefly in The Logic of Sense and then Anti-Oedipus three years later. In part because of this marginality – the meagre degree to which it is integrated into the respective metaphysical system of the two works – it provides us with a useful vantage point from which to examine these systems themselves. In particular, a careful exposition of the two for…
Model hagiography
In his review of my recent book, Abstract Market Theory, Johnson mistakes my investigation into the conditions and limits of probabilistic reasoning as a rejection of its sense and utility. The same misunderstanding also appears in a review by Munger published recently. In both cases this leads to a skewed and reductive understanding of my reconception of the relationship between price and value. In this response, I present an outline of the phil…
Deleuze and the Nonhuman Turn
Recently the category of the human has been besieged from all sides. Not only has it been revealed to have been complicit with the violent exclusions of those considered to be less-than-human, understood as a normative notion (women, nonheterosexuals, people of color, the disabled) but its metaphysical security has also been challenged by the flourishing of theoretical interest in the nonhuman: forces, animals, objects and plants. How do you posi…
Deleuze and the Non/Human
This groundbreaking interdisciplinary collection interrogates the significance of Deleuze's work in the recent and dramatic nonhuman turn. It confronts questions about environmental futures, animals a
Lacan Deleuze Badiou
Time and Ground
In his 2006 After Finitude, Quentin Meillassoux presents a striking and far-reaching critique of what he calls correlationism: the view that there is no epistemological access to being as it is in itself, but only knowledge of being as it is for us. On the basis of his refutation of this doctrine, he comes to propose what he takes to be the fundamental principle of rational ontology: that there is no reason why things are the way they are, and th…
Deleuze's Philosophical Lineage
Deleuze's Philosophical Heritage
Introduction
Those coming to Deleuze's work for the fi rst time (and even those returning to it anew) fi nd themselves confronted by the dilemma of where to begin, of how to engage with it.Two diffi culties present themselves.The fi rst and more immediate one is that, conceptually, Deleuze's work is so richly detailed and complex.Thus on opening one of his books the reader is confronted by a plethora of concepts that already seem to presuppose on the reader's…
The errant name
Deleuze and Merleau-Ponty
This paper will seek firstly to understand Deleuze’s main challenges to phenomenology, particularly as they are expressed in The Logic of Sense and What is Philosophy?, although reference will also be made to Pure Immanence and Difference and Repetition. We will then turn to a discussion of one of the few passages in which Deleuze directly engages with Merleau-Ponty, which occurs in the chapter on art in What is Philosophy? In this text, he and G…
Deleuze's Philosophical Lineage
The philosophy of Gilles Deleuze is increasingly gaining the prestige that its inventiveness calls for in the Anglo-American theoretical context. His wide-ranging works on the history of philosophy, cinema, painting, literature, and politics are being taken up and put to work across disciplinary divides, and in interesting and surprising ways. However, the backbone of Deleuze's philosophy – the many and varied sources from which he draws the mate…
Introduction
This book aims to provide various clear points of entry into the labyrinth of Gilles Deleuze's thought, but without sacrificing any of its philosophical complexity or integrity in doing so. It discusses Deleuze's own intermittent descriptions of his work and provides characterisations of Deleuze's philosophy. The chapter also explores the similarities and differences between Deleuze's thoughts and philosophy and those of other philosophers includ…
Deleuze and the Non/Human
This groundbreaking interdisciplinary collection interrogates the significance of Deleuze's work in the recent and dramatic nonhuman turn. It confronts questions about environmental futures, animals a
Time and Ground
In his 2006 After Finitude, Quentin Meillassoux presents a striking and far-reaching critique of what he calls correlationism: the view that there is no epistemological access to being as it is in itself, but only knowledge of being as it is for us. On the basis of his refutation of this doctrine, he comes to propose what he takes to be the fundamental principle of rational ontology: that there is no reason why things are the way they are, and th…
Deleuze's Concept of Quasi-cause
The concept of quasi-cause is a relatively marginal one in the work of Gilles Deleuze, appearing briefly in The Logic of Sense and then Anti-Oedipus three years later. In part because of this marginality – the meagre degree to which it is integrated into the respective metaphysical system of the two works – it provides us with a useful vantage point from which to examine these systems themselves. In particular, a careful exposition of the two for…
Model hagiography
In his review of my recent book, Abstract Market Theory, Johnson mistakes my investigation into the conditions and limits of probabilistic reasoning as a rejection of its sense and utility. The same misunderstanding also appears in a review by Munger published recently. In both cases this leads to a skewed and reductive understanding of my reconception of the relationship between price and value. In this response, I present an outline of the phil…
Deleuze and Merleau-Ponty
This paper will seek firstly to understand Deleuze’s main challenges to phenomenology, particularly as they are expressed in The Logic of Sense and What is Philosophy?, although reference will also be made to Pure Immanence and Difference and Repetition. We will then turn to a discussion of one of the few passages in which Deleuze directly engages with Merleau-Ponty, which occurs in the chapter on art in What is Philosophy? In this text, he and G…
Deleuze's Philosophical Lineage
The philosophy of Gilles Deleuze is increasingly gaining the prestige that its inventiveness calls for in the Anglo-American theoretical context. His wide-ranging works on the history of philosophy, cinema, painting, literature, and politics are being taken up and put to work across disciplinary divides, and in interesting and surprising ways. However, the backbone of Deleuze's philosophy – the many and varied sources from which he draws the mate…
Introduction
This book aims to provide various clear points of entry into the labyrinth of Gilles Deleuze's thought, but without sacrificing any of its philosophical complexity or integrity in doing so. It discusses Deleuze's own intermittent descriptions of his work and provides characterisations of Deleuze's philosophy. The chapter also explores the similarities and differences between Deleuze's thoughts and philosophy and those of other philosophers includ…
Deleuze and Merleau-Ponty
This paper will seek firstly to understand Deleuze’s main challenges to phenomenology, particularly as they are expressed in The Logic of Sense and What is Philosophy?, although reference will also be made to Pure Immanence and Difference and Repetition. We will then turn to a discussion of one of the few passages in which Deleuze directly engages with Merleau-Ponty, which occurs in the chapter on art in What is Philosophy? In this text, he and G…
The errant name
Deleuze's Philosophical Lineage
Deleuze's Philosophical Heritage
Introduction
Those coming to Deleuze's work for the fi rst time (and even those returning to it anew) fi nd themselves confronted by the dilemma of where to begin, of how to engage with it.Two diffi culties present themselves.The fi rst and more immediate one is that, conceptually, Deleuze's work is so richly detailed and complex.Thus on opening one of his books the reader is confronted by a plethora of concepts that already seem to presuppose on the reader's…
Time and Ground
In his 2006 After Finitude, Quentin Meillassoux presents a striking and far-reaching critique of what he calls correlationism: the view that there is no epistemological access to being as it is in itself, but only knowledge of being as it is for us. On the basis of his refutation of this doctrine, he comes to propose what he takes to be the fundamental principle of rational ontology: that there is no reason why things are the way they are, and th…
Lacan Deleuze Badiou
Deleuze and the Nonhuman Turn
Recently the category of the human has been besieged from all sides. Not only has it been revealed to have been complicit with the violent exclusions of those considered to be less-than-human, understood as a normative notion (women, nonheterosexuals, people of color, the disabled) but its metaphysical security has also been challenged by the flourishing of theoretical interest in the nonhuman: forces, animals, objects and plants. How do you posi…
Deleuze and the Non/Human
This groundbreaking interdisciplinary collection interrogates the significance of Deleuze's work in the recent and dramatic nonhuman turn. It confronts questions about environmental futures, animals a
Model hagiography
In his review of my recent book, Abstract Market Theory, Johnson mistakes my investigation into the conditions and limits of probabilistic reasoning as a rejection of its sense and utility. The same misunderstanding also appears in a review by Munger published recently. In both cases this leads to a skewed and reductive understanding of my reconception of the relationship between price and value. In this response, I present an outline of the phil…
Form IV
From the point of view of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, Raymond Ruyer's work appears to bear out two distinct tendencies of unequal appeal. On the one hand, Ruyer appears to be an anti-Aristotelian thinker of formation, rejecting any hylomorphic account of the production of reality. However, and notably despite his serious commitment to the work of the sciences of his day, he remains wedded to the ultimately conservative Leibnizian principle …
Gilles Deleuze's Empiricism and Subjectivity
Guides you through Gilles Deleuze's first book, with its striking reading of David HumeJon Roffe shows how Empiricism and Subjectivity is the precursor for some of Deleuze's most well-known philosophical innovations. For those already familiar with Deleuze, he emphasises its novelty within his corpus. And, for all readers, he shows how it outlines Deleuze's powerful and striking theory of subjectivity, and of philosophy itself.Empiricism and Subj…
Deleuze's Concept of Quasi-cause
The concept of quasi-cause is a relatively marginal one in the work of Gilles Deleuze, appearing briefly in The Logic of Sense and then Anti-Oedipus three years later. In part because of this marginality – the meagre degree to which it is integrated into the respective metaphysical system of the two works – it provides us with a useful vantage point from which to examine these systems themselves. In particular, a careful exposition of the two for…
Deleuze's Philosophical Lineage II
16 chapters by new and established Deleuze scholars each explore one key figure in Deleuze’s philosophical heritage Explains the influence of 16 thinkers to Deleuze's philosophical project: how Deleuze draws on and responds to their work Introduces important continental thinkers largely unknown in English-speaking countries, such as Henri Maldiney, George Dumézil, Charles Péguy and Pierre Clastres Clarifies the synthetic method that Deleuze used …
Instinct, Consciousness, Life
The question of Ruyer's relationship to Bergson remains under-theorized. This article attempts to address that problem by introducing a little-known essay written by Ruyer on the topic of Bergson's theory of vital sympathy, "Bergson et le Sphex ammophile," which appeared in 1959, one year after the publication of La Genèse des formes vivantes and the completion of Ruyer's systematic philosophy of biology. An English translation of the essay appea…
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