The Theatre of Production: Philosophy and Individuation between Kant and Deleuze

by Alberto Toscano

This book provides a historical analysis of the philosophical problem of individuation, and a new trajectory in its treatment. Drawing on the work of Gilles Deleuze, C.S. Peirce and Gilbert Simondon, the problem of individuation is taken into the realm of modernity. This is a vibrant contribution to contemporary debates in European philosophy.

Genres: Philosophy

263 pages, Hardcover

First published March 13, 2006

About the author

Giornalista e analista politico, laureato in Scienze politiche a Milano, ha lavorato per importanti testate italiane e francesi, tra cui L’Unità, ItaliaOggi, Il Giornale, France 5, LCI e La Croix. Vive a Parigi dal 1986, dove è anche docente universitario a Bordeaux e alla Sorbona.

Ha ricoperto ruoli di rilievo in associazioni della stampa europea e ha ricevuto numerosi riconoscimenti, tra cui onorificenze da Jacques Chirac e Giorgio Napolitano. È stato protagonista di iniziative culturali e teatrali, e collabora attivamente con media italiani e francesi.

Reviews

[Bogdan Stefan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Toscano writes pretentiously and thinks that through Simondon and Deleuze Philosophy has made a kind of scientific leap from which we can never go back. You see Individuation is not a made up word like all the others, we're doing serious work here.

Anyways, it is actually an innovative work that anyone interested in thinking the idea of a dynamic transcendental field will find very valuable.