[D-G] Deleuze and Rationalism

[Ray Brassier]

Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy

Deleuze and Rationalism
10am-6pm, 15 & 16 March 2007
Saloon, Mansion Building
Middlesex University
Trent Park
Bramley Road
London N14 4YZ
£20 per day waged/£10 per day unwaged (includes lunch and refreshments)
Contact r.brassier[at]mdx.ac.uk in order to register.



In his various books and articles on Spinoza, 
Deleuze appears to affirm what he calls 
'Spinozism's most radical thesis', the thesis of 
'absolute rationalism, based on the adequation of 
our understanding to absolute knowledge' - the 
thesis that presumes the 'total intelligibility 
of God, the key of the total intelligibility of 
things'. What does this mean? How might this 
absolute rationalism inflect the orientation of 
Deleuze's philosophy? What might it mean to 
rethink rationalism today, in the light of 
Deleuze's work?


Speakers:

Saverio Ansaldi (Montpellier III - Paul Valéry)
Deleuze and Spinoza: The Power of Expression

Ray Brassier (Middlesex University)
Expression and Sense

Mladen Dolar (University of Ljubljana)
title to be confirmed

Christian Kerslake (Middlesex University)
Mathesis and Rationalism

Beth Lord (University of Dundee)
Immanence and the Transcendental

Dan Selcer (Duquesne University)
The Order of Encounters: Deleuze on Spinoza,
Leibniz, and the 'Anti-Cartesian Revolution'

Dan Smith (Middlesex/Purdue University)
Rationalism Unbound: Deleuze on Leibniz and Spinoza

http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/crmep/EVENTS/Deleuze&Rationalism.htm