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Against Continuity is the first book to demonstrate that the beating heart of Gilles Deleuze's philosophy is a systematic ontology of irreducible, singular entities. This requires a radical break with decades of Deleuzian orthodoxy, according to which Deleuze's metaphysics revolves around the dissolution of discrete entities into a continuous world of flows and events.With reference to all of Deleuze's work, including published and untranslated seminars, as well as the recently published 'Lettres et autres textes', Arjen Kleinherenbrink critically compares Deleuze's ontology to seven related contemporary thinkers: Levi Bryant, Maurizio Ferraris, Markus Gabriel, Manuel DeLanda, Graham Harman, Tristan Garcia and Bruno Latour. These comparisons establish Deleuze as an important precursor to object-oriented speculative realism and open up exciting new avenues of thought for critics and supporters of Deleuze alike.

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"Arguably one of the closest and most rigorous secondary readings of Deleuze's oeuvre.--Ekin Erkan, The New Centre for Research & Practice ""Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy"" I have walked away from this book feeling that I need to rethink everything I thought I knew about Deleuze and read his work again with fresh eyes. I've been studying and teaching Deleuze for 25 years.-- ""Levi Bryant, Collin College"""

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Arjen Kleinherenbrink is Assistant Professor in the Center for Contemporary European Philosophy, in the Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen.

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