A Geometry of Sufficient Reason

This book explores and compares the reflections on space and quantity found in the works of five philosophers: Spinoza, Leibniz, Bergson, Whitehead, and Deleuze. What unites these philosophers is a series of metaphysical concerns rooted in 17th-century rationalism and embraced in 20th-century philosophies of process and difference.

Autorentext

Florian Vermeiren is a postdoctoral researcher at the Husserl-Archives: Centre for Phenomenology and Continental Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven, Belgium. He is the author of a dozen journal articles on Spinoza, Leibniz, Bergson, Whitehead, and Deleuze.

Inhalt

General Introduction Part 1: The Ubiquity of Each Thing Introduction 1. The Rejection of Restrictive Essence: Spinoza and Leibniz 2. Defined by Everything: Spinoza's Reconception of Essence 3. A Mirror of the Universe: Leibniz's Infinite Individuals 4. A Concrescence of the Universe: Whitehead's Actual Occasions Conclusion Part 2: The Immanence of Space Introduction 5. Leibniz's Space of Individual Relations 6. Whitehead and the Immanence of Extension Conclusion Part 3: A New Quantification of Nature Introduction 7. Spinoza's Concept of Quantity: Unique, Indivisible, and Infinite 8. Leibniz's New Quantification of Nature 9. Bergson's Philosophy of Degrees 10. Deleuze's Theory of Intensive Magnitude Conclusion General Conclusion: A Geometry of Sufficient Reason