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First published in 1997, Alain Badiou’s Deleuze: The Clamor of Being cast the thinker as a secret philosopher of the One, compromising Deleuze’s standing among political philosophers concerned with the practical and historical aspects of existence. Clayton Crockett rehabilitates Deleuze’s position within contemporary, cutting-edge political and philosophical thought, advancing an original reading of the thinker’s major works and a constructive conception of his philosophical ontology. Through close readings of Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition, Capitalism and Schizophrenia (with Felix Guattari), and Cinema 2, Crockett argues Deleuze is anything but the austere, quietistic, and aristocratic intellectual Badiou portrays. Instead, Crockett underscores Deleuze’s radical aesthetics and innovative scientific, political, and mathematical forms of thought. Challenging predominant orthodoxy, he also refutes the notion that Deleuze retreated from politics toward the end of his life, grounding his argument in the revolutionary political concept of the time-image developed in Cinema 2. Using Badiou’s critique as a foil, Crockett maintains the profound continuity of Deleuze’s work and builds a general interpretation of his more obscure formulations. His study also offers original readings of Badiou’s central philosophical texts, Theory of the Subject, Being and Event, and Logics of Worlds, and uses the devastating earthquake in Haiti as a test case for applying Deleuze’s thought.

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Crockett's manuscript has a remarkably illuminating quality to it. That he is able to make so crystal clear some of Deleuze's contested concepts is the result of years of patient labor over Deleuze's writings.--Ward Blanton, University of Glasgow Crockett is a thinker who is quickly developing an influential international profile in his own right and this text reinforces why...This is an interdisciplinary text of rare ability and power that takes the reader into not only a deeply considered discussion of two crucial thinkers but carefully and skillfully explains the limits and possibilities in discussion.--Mike Grimshaw, Canterbury University, New Zealand

This book offers insightful interpretations of several of Deleuze's major works.-- Choice

Crockett's manuscript has a remarkably illuminating quality to it. That he is able to make so crystal clear some of Deleuze's contested concepts is the result of years of patient labor over Deleuze's writings.--Ward Blanton, University of Glasgow

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Clayton Crockett is associate professor and director of religious studies at the University of Central Arkansas. He is the author of three other books, most recently Radical Political Theology: Religion and Politics After Liberalism, and editor or coeditor of four books, including Hegel and the Infinite: Religion, Politics and Dialectic (with Slavoj Žižek and Creston Davis).

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