Deleuze and the Immanent Sublime by Louis Schreel - 9781350344884

Deleuze and the Immanent SublimeIdea and Individuation\nAuthor(s): Louis Schreel\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781350344884, 978-1350344884\nSynopsis\nWhat becomes of the sublime today, in a philosophy that discards the old oppositions between body and mind and embeds human reason in the creative evolution of life? In this book, Louis Schreel shows how Gilles Deleuzes life-long engagement with the Kantian sublime grappled with just this question. Its core argument centres on Deleuzes understanding of the sublime in terms of psychic individuation a creative, self-organizing process that animates cognitive systems from within. \n\nExploring Deleuzes transcendental philosophy through central concepts of self-organization, psychic individuation, passibility and infinity, this book shows how a new notion of the sublime emerges in a timely and novel way. In this way, Deleuze and the Immanent Sublime opens u.