The Signature of the World focuses on one of the most influential works of contemporary philosophy: What is Philosophy? by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, their last joint work after Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus. It sets What is Philosophy? in the context of earlier work by the two thinkers and, in a manner sure to challenge and provoke, juxtaposes it to the work of both analytic philosophers and continental phenomenologists.

Alliez explores the distinctive theory of thought put forth by Deleuze & Guattari from a series of angles, delving into their revolutionary, Spinozist treatment of the history of philosophy, elucidating their engagement with the metaphysics of current research programmes in the sciences and delineating their invention of a 'material meta-aesthetics' capable of responding to the most radical experiments in contemporary art.

Much recent philosophy has revelled in declaring the end of metaphysics, of ontology, and sometimes of philosophy itself. In sharp contrast, The Signature of the World is a forceful reminder of the power of ontology and the need for a materialist reinvention of metaphysics.

The Signature of the World is here accompanied by two appendices, 'Deleuze Virtual Philosophy' and 'On the Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze: An Introduction to Matter', as well as a preface by Alberto Toscano.

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Alexander

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Sep 30, 2016

The Signature of the World is an odd book. Ostensibly about Deleuze’s and Guattari’s last coauthored work, ‘What Is Philosophy?’, this isn’t so much a commentary as it is a kind of ‘extension' of WIP, a postscript or an unwritten eighth chapter, riffing on WIP's themes while moving in directions not exactly prescribed by the book itself. Not quite a guide, but more of a chaser to the main event, if could be put that way. Comprised of three small essays and a pair of appendices (this isn’t a big

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Jan 12, 2015

I bought this book because I was curious about what Alliez had to say about "Deleuze's Virtual Philosophy" and was not disappointed!

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