AUTHOR APPROVED

'This book will readily take its place as one of the most important volumes in all of Deleuze Studies.'

Nick Nesbitt, Princeton University

'This is a wide-ranging and penetrating study of one of Deleuze's most important works. A superb book.'

Daniel W. Smith, Purdue University

An incisive analysis of Deleuze's philosophy of events

Sean Bowden shows how the Deleuzian event should be understood in terms of the broader metaphysical thesis that substances are ontologically secondary with respect to events. He achieves this through a reconstruction of Deleuze's relation to the history of thought from the Stoics through to Simondon, taking account of Leibniz, Lautman, structuralism and psychoanalysis along the way.

This exciting new reading of Deleuze focuses firmly on his approach to events. Bowden also examines and clarifies a number of Deleuze's most difficult philosophical concepts, including sense, problematic Ideas and intensive individuation, and engages with material by Lautman and Simondon that has not yet been translated into English.

Sean Bowden lectures in philosophy at Deakin University and is a Research Fellow in the Philosophy Program at La Trobe University. He is the co-editor of Badiou and Philosophy, forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press.

Sean Bowden is an Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Deakin University, Australia. He is the author of The Priority of Events: Deleuze's Logic of Sense (Edinburgh University Press, 2011), and has published a number of articles and book chapters on Badiou, Deleuze and Simondon.

Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: The Ontological Priority of Events in The Logic of Sense; 1. The Stoics - Events and Sense; 2. Leibniz - The Static Ontological and Logical Geneses; 3. Lautman and Simondon - Problematic Ideas and Singularities; 4. Structuralism - Structure and the Sense-Event; 5. Psychoanalysis - Dynamic Genesis; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.