Conditions of Thought

'This book is the best of the recent Romantic presentations of Deleuze's engagement with Maimon. Voss demonstrates that Kant's work, and Maimon's critique of it, are crucial for developing an understanding of Deleuze's philosophy.' Simon Duffy, Yale-NUS College, Singapore An analysis of Deleuze's notion of transcendental and genetic Ideas as conditions of creative thought From his early work in Nietzsche and Philosophy to Difference and Repetition, Deleuze develops a unique notion of transcendental philosophy. It comprises a radical critique of the illusions of representation and a genetic model of thought. What is the problem with representation? How are we to understand the notion of differential Ideas? How can transcendental philosophy operate without presupposing the unity of a transcendental subject? Engaging with these and other questions, Daniela Voss offers a sophisticated treatment of the Kantian aspects of Deleuze's thought, taking account of Leibniz, Maimon, Lautman and Nietzsche along the way. Daniela Voss received her PhD from Free University, Berlin. She currently works as an editor at diaphanes, Zürich-Berlin. Cover image: Multiplicity (c) Elke Reinhuber. Cover design: [EUP logo] www.euppublishing.com