文档介绍：The Signature of the World
The Signature of the
World,
Or,
What is Deleuze and Guattari's
Philosophy?
ERIC ALLIEZ
Translated by
ELIOT ROSS ALBERT
and
ALBERTO TOSCANO
Preface by
ALBERTO TOSCANO
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Contents
Presentation by Heinz Wismann vii
The Coloured Thickness of a Problem. Preface by
Alberto Toscano ix
Notes and Acknowledgements xxvii
Introduction 1
I. The Ethics of Philosophy 5
II. The Aetiology of Science 33
III. Onto-Ethologics 53
Appendix I: Deleuze's Virtual Philosophy 85
Appendix II: On the Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze:
An Introduction to Matter 105
Index 117
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Presentation
Despite the critiques aimed at them, each and every day ontolo-
gies are reborn under our gaze, if not from out of our own dis-
courses. The need that pushes towards this rebirth is most often
satisfied by the authority of established fact, with no effort being
made to know the conditions behind this need and, by the same
token, the limits of its validity. We thus witness t