Böcker av Francois Zourabichvili

Zourabichvili's interpretation of Spinoza's political philosophy is radically unlike the established tradition. He explores Spinoza's philosophical theory of change across three different studies: one on ethical conversion and becoming wise, one on childhood and growing up and one on absolute monarchy and the free multitude. This edition includes a substantive Introduction situating and contextualising the book, laying out the major themes of Zourabichvili's analysis, as well as an exchange between Pierre Macherey and Zourabichvili - from 2004 - clarifying the themes and stakes of the investigation. François Zourabichvili was a director at the Collège international de philosophie in Paris from 1998 to 2004. He also wrote Deleuze: A Philosophy of the Event (Edinburgh University Press, 2012) and Spinoza: Une physique de la pensée (Presses Universitaires de Paris, 2002). Gil Morejón teaches at Loyola University Chicago. He is the author of The Unconscious of Thought in Leibniz, Spinoza, and Hume (Edinburgh University Press, 2022).

A new translation of two essential works on Deleuze, written by one of his contemporaries. From the publication of Deleuze: A Philosophy of the Event to his untimely death in 2006, Franois Zourabichvili was regarded as one of the most important new voices of contemporary philosophy in France. His work continues to make an essential contribution to Deleuze scholarship today. This edition makes two of Zourabichvili's most important writings on the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze available in a single volume. A Philosophy of the Event (1994) is an exposition of Deleuze's philosophy as a whole, while the complementary Deleuze's Vocabulary (2003) approaches Deleuze's work through an analysis of key concepts in a dictionary form.This new translation is set to become an event within Deleuze Studies for many years to come.Key Features: Distinguishes Deleuze's notion of the event from the phenomenological, ontological and voluntarist conceptions that continue to lay claim to it todayWith an introduction by Gregg Lambert and Daniel W. Smith, two of the world's leading commentators on Deleuze, explaining the key themes and arguments of Zourabichvili's work