The Fold

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a significant and needed contribution. proposes a radically new conception of the notion of Baroque and, at the same time, is a new interpretation of Leibniz's work."
Reda Bensmaia Brown University
In The Fold, Gilies Deleuze argues that Leibniz's writings constitute the grounding elements of a Baroque philosophy and of theories for analyzing contemporary arts and science. A model for expression in contemporary aesthetics, the concept of the monad is viewed in terms of folds of space, movement, and time. Similarly, the world is interpreted as a body of infinite folds and surfaces that twist and weave through compressed time and space. According to Deleuze, Leibniz also anticipates contemporary views of event and history as multifaceted combinations of signs in motion (in terms of folds of space, movement, and time) and of the "modern" subject as nomadic (through various foldings of sensibilities) always in the process of becoming.
By displacing Leibniz—who is... Tovább

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PHILOSOPHY
a significant and needed contribution. proposes a radically new conception of the notion of Baroque and, at the same time, is a new interpretation of Leibniz's work."
Reda Bensmaia Brown University
In The Fold, Gilies Deleuze argues that Leibniz's writings constitute the grounding elements of a Baroque philosophy and of theories for analyzing contemporary arts and science. A model for expression in contemporary aesthetics, the concept of the monad is viewed in terms of folds of space, movement, and time. Similarly, the world is interpreted as a body of infinite folds and surfaces that twist and weave through compressed time and space. According to Deleuze, Leibniz also anticipates contemporary views of event and history as multifaceted combinations of signs in motion (in terms of folds of space, movement, and time) and of the "modern" subject as nomadic (through various foldings of sensibilities) always in the process of becoming.
By displacing Leibniz—who is usually inserted in a historical continuum that runs from Descartes and Spinoza to Newton and Locke—into aesthetic theory spanning the Renaissance and the postindustrial era, Deleuze shows how "monadology" and the "theodicy" explain movement, memory, predictability, and subjectivity itself. Ultimately, Deleuze demonstrates that Leibniz's concept of the "monad" has significant implications and far-reaching consequences for the study of logic, science, and aesthetics.
GILLES DELEUZE is emeritus professor of piiilosopliy at the University of Paris-VIII at Saint-Denis. He is tlie author of numerous boolcs, including Kant's Critical Philosophy: The Doctrine of the Faculties (1985); Foucault (1988); Cinema 1: The Movement-Image (1986); and Cinema 2: The Time-Image (1989), all published by the University of IMinnesota Press. Vissza