ABSTRACT

Germinal Life is the sequel to the highly successful Viroid Life. Where Viroid Life provided a compelling reading of Nietzsche's philosophy of the human, Germinal Life is an original and groundbreaking analysis of little known and difficult theoretical aspects of the work of French philosopher Gilles Deleuze.
In particular, Keith Ansell Pearson provides fresh and insightful readings of Deleuze's work on Bergson and Deleuze's most famous texts Difference and Repetition and A Thousand Plateaus. Germinal Life also provides new insights into Deleuze's relation to some of the most original thinkers of modernity, from Darwin to Freud and Nietzsche, and explores the connections between Deleuze and more recent thinkers such as Adorno and Merleau-Ponty.

chapter |19 pages

Introduction

Repeating the difference of Deleuze

chapter |57 pages

The Difference of Bergson

Duration and creative evolution

chapter |62 pages

Difference and Repetition

The germinal life of the event

chapter |70 pages

The Memories of a Bergsonian

From creative evolution to creative ethology

chapter |16 pages

Conclusion

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