Deleuze's Concept of Quasi-cause
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8095775 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jon Roffe (UNSW Sydney, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 278-294 |
| Publication date | 2017-04-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Deleuze Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1750-2241 • E-ISSN: 1755-1684 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/dls.2017.0266 |
| OpenAlex | W2607769182 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 13 |
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 forms that the concept of the quasi-cause takes provides us with an aperture on the shifting role of the concepts of the virtual and the intensive in Deleuze's ongoing project. In this paper, I will argue that, through this aperture, it is possible to see the displacement of the virtual in favour of the intensive. In turn, we can characterise Anti-Oedipus as the birth of a fully actualist Deleuzian metaphysics
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| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
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