Description: Illustrates the importance of cosmology in Deleuze's philosophy and its potential for multi-disciplinary transformation.
Brief description: Alain Beaulieu is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Laurentian University, Canada. He has a Doctorat de 3e cycle in philosophy from the Université de Paris 8 with a thesis on Gilles Deleuze et la phénoménologie (Sils Maria/Vrin, 2nd ed. 2006). He published Cuerpo y acontecimiento. La estética de Gilles Deleuze (Letra Viva, 2012), Gilles Deleuze et ses contemporains (Harmattan, 2011) and (co)edited the following works: Gilles Deleuze and Metaphysics (Lexington, 2014), Abécédaire de Martin Heidegger (Sils Maria/Vrin, 2008), Michel Foucault and Power Today (Lexington, 2006), Gilles Deleuze. Héritage philosophique (PUF, 2005), as well as Michel Foucault et le contrôle social (PU Laval, 2nd ed. 2008).
Review Quotes: This is an exciting collection of essays. The editors have brought together a number of leading scholars to take on themes of vital interest, and they have each provided high quality work. Going forward, this book will provide an important resource for a number of current debates.--Jeffrey Bell, Southeastern Louisiana University