Translator's Foreword; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction: The Problems of Deleuzian Conception of Philosophy; Part I: Theory of Elements; Chapter I: Theory of the Concept; 1. Its Function; a. The Virtual; b. Consistency; c. Differences from Criticism; i. An Expanded Empiricism; ii. From the Critical Philosophy to a Metaphilosophical Criticism; iii. Constitution and Reconstitution; d.
Philosophy, Science, and Art; e. Conclusion; 2. The Concept's Ontological Status; 3. Objectivity; 4. Concept and Event; 5. From Representation to Counter-Effectuation; 6. The Concept's Singularity; 7. Multiplicity (or Endoconsistency); 8.
The Heterogeneity of Components; 9. The Concept's Mutability or Historicity; 10. Mobility; 11. The Concept's Exoconsistency, or Philosophy's Systematicity; 12. Concepts, Functions, Affects; Conclusion; Chapter II: The Plane of Immanence; 1. Philosophy's Inauguration; a. Image of Thought and Matter of Being; b. Plane of Immanence and Concepts; c.
Philosophy's Commencement and Philosophy's Inauguration; d. Conclusion; 2. Histories of Philosophy; a. The History of Philosophy Is Not a Long Discussion; b. The Time of Philosophy; c. History of Philosophy and Philosophy of History; d. One or Several Planes of Immanence?; e. History of Philosophy and Metahistory of Philosophy; f.
Conclusion; Chapter III: Conceptual Personae; 1. The Agent of Philosophical Enunciation; 2. Distinction between the Conceptual Persona and the Literary Character; 3. Passage from the Conceptual Persona to the Literary Character; Conclusion; Chapter IV: Theory of Method; 1. The Problem of Method; 2. The Limits of Interpretation; 3. The Deleuzian Method; 4. A Bergsonian Method?; a.
Intuition as Method; b. Space and Time; c. The Empirical and the Transcendental; Conclusion; Chapter V: The History of Philosophy; 1. The Problem of the History of Philosophy; 2. Difference and Repetition; a. The Art of the Portrait; b. Philosophical Collage; c. Theatre of Philosophy; 3.
Fidelity and Efficacy; a. Falsification and Fictionalisation; b. The Status of Objectivity; c. A Classical Historiography; d. The Two Histories and the Two Rules of Method; Conclusion; Chapter VI: Philosophical Discourse; 1. Philosophy of Language and Philosophy of Literary Art; a. The Postulates of Linguistics; b. Literature as Language within Language; c.
Political Functions of Literature; 2. Philosophy as a Branch of Literature; 3. General Theory of Philosophical Discourse; a. The Voice of Cutting-out; b. The Name of the Concept; c. The Enunciative Instance; d. Case Analysis: Literary Genres in Nietzsche and Spinoza; 4. Deleuzian Discourse; a.
Solutions to the General Problems of Philosophical Discourse; i. The Names of the Concept; ii. The Enunciative Instance; b. Particular Problems and Solutions in Deleuzian Discourse; i. Expressing the Virtual; ii. Expressing the Event; iii. Expression of Multiplicity; Conclusion; Part III: The Philosophical Image of Thought; Introduction; Chapter VII: The Dogmatic Image and the New Image of Thought; 1. Postulate of Commencement: the Principle of Cogitatio Natura Universalis; 2.
Postulate of the Ideal: Common Sense; Postulate of the Model: Recognition ; 3. Postulate of the Element: Representation; 4. That Which Forces Thinking; 5. From the Collaboration to the Concatenation of the Faculties; 6. 'The Transcendental Landscape Comes To Life'; 7. Postulate of the Negative: Error; 8. Foolishness; 9. Postulate of the Condition: the Problem and Sense; Postulate of the Consequence; the Solution and the True; 10.
The Genesis of Truth; 11. Postulate of the Result: Knowledge; 12. Apprenticeship and Culture; Conclusion; Chapter VIII: Philosophical Thought; 1. Sign and Idea; 2. The New Image of Method; a. Creation of Concepts and Construction of Problems; b. Method and Culture; Conclusion: The Identity of Philosophy faced with the Singularity of Philosophies; Bibliography.