Deleuze and Derrida

Vernon W. Cisney is Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Philosophy at Gettysburg College. He is the author of Deleuze and Derrida: Difference and the Power of the Negative (Edinburgh University Press, 2018) and Derrida’s Voice and Phenomenon: An Edinburgh Philosophical Guide (Edinburgh University Press, 2014). He is the co-editor of Between Foucault and Derrida (Edinburgh University Press, 2016); The Way of Nature and the Way of Grace: Philosophical Footholds on Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life (Northwestern University Press, 2016); and Biopower: Foucault and Beyond (University of Chicago Press, 2015).

• Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Part I: Introduction; 1. The Question; 2. Grounding the Question; Part II: The Tremendous Power of the Negative; 3. The Two Pillars of Deconstruction; 4. Deleuze and Hegelian Difference; 5. The Tremendous Power of the Negative; Part III: Thinking Difference Itself; 6. Traces and Ashes; 7. Deleuze, Plato’s Reversal, and Eternal Return; 8. Derrida, Deleuze, and Difference; Part IV: Implications and Conclusions; 9. Deconstruction v. Constructivism; 10. Conclusion(s); Bibliography.

Deleuze and Derrida is not only the best study we have by far of the notoriously divergent ways these two seminal French thinkers approached the problem of "difference." It is also a manifesto for the philosophy of the future, since only difference, Cisney insists, is capable of pushing thought to places it has never been before. A wonderfully lucid and provocative book.