Below is an excerpt from “Gilles Deleuze and Metaphysics,” published last month by Lexington Books.

In this chapter written by Thomas Nail, argues that “we are witnessing the return of both in the work of French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Alain Badiou. Their return, however, is no mere repetition of the previous forms of classical metaphysics and modern revolution—defined by totality and the capture of the state.”

Download the article from Academia.edu here.