The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque by Gilles Deleuze (PDF)

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Text: English (translation) Original Language: French

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⭐Deleuze’s book is, at least for no other reason, a worthwhile read for its sheer imagination. Secondly, it is worth reading as it shows just what is so wonderfully interesting about Leibniz. If you know Leibniz, read this book, even just a single section, and then you will understand why there do exist, in small obscure places, Leibnitians. If you are looking for a splendidly imaginative perspective, read up.

⭐A must read!

⭐This is, indeed a very good book, but you need to have some background in philosophy and mathematics to get the full of it.

⭐While my French is not good enough to judge others, I find it very easy to believe that this translation is not good. I found this book the most difficult of Deleuze’s works, and I think the translator did not understand his task. To recover I needed to undertake a rereading of Leibniz so I could see through the English text before me and re-establish the original terms and questions.Still, if you do not read French well, this very important book should not escape you even in this edition. Leibniz was a giant at the watershed between faith and science who was able to span this divide and think with complexity and innovation about the soul and mathematics. Since then, few can handle either vocabulary with such perspective, and almost none, save Deleuze, have tried to understand the demands of both.If one does not, as almost all do, take for granted the givens of the centered subject and the rational world, their mutual differences demand a theory as powerful as the complexities they evoke. This book attempts to place that theory in play again with vigor.

⭐Please forgive me for commenting on an English translation that I have not read, but honestly I was put off from purchasing the English edition by the complaints of several reviewers, so I purchased a French edition instead. I am familiar with Deleuze and Leibniz, but not a specialist in either per se. I read French well enough, but not with the acumen of a French professor. However, Deleuze’s French is deliberate and concise, startlingly brilliant and terse. Moreover, the substantive content of the text is not particularly difficult for anyone who has some mastery of the philosophical issues behind Leibniz’ mathematics and the development of the calculus or a general mastery of Deleuze. After spending a few days with the French text, I find it highly unlikely that a Harvard French professor with the complicity of the University of Minnesota Press would botch such an important translation. Just for example, one reviewer complained about the word “corps.” In Leibniz’s philosophical writings on mathematics, natural philosophy, or the mathematical qua philosophical problem of the continuum, for example, he uses the word “body” and “bodies” any number of times in mathematical contexts … for example “On Minima and Maxima: On Bodies and Minds” (1672-73), “On Body, Space, and the Continuum” (1676), “A Body is not a Substance” (1679), just to name a few. If you are interested in Deleuze’s wonderful little book and can’t read the French with as much profit or pleasure as an English translation, I suspect you needn’t worry about the quality of the translation. With all due respect to the opinions of others… Stuart MacNiven, Rutgers University

⭐I find Deleuze’s earlier books on figures from the history of philosophy (Nietzsche, Kant, Spinoza, Hume) far more interesting and coherent than his collaborations with Guattari. However, this book finds itself in the middle of these two tendencies: no, it’s Deleuze on his own, he’s writing about a major (but overlooked)philosopher in a manner that can only be deemed: schizophrenic. And since Leibniz’s philosophy is schizo at times, the pairing is near perfect (the best of all possible worlds).The opening image of the Baroque is a bit vague, but then again, Deleuze has always been short on precise connections and plentiful on creative and unorthodox imageries. Some sections are plain impossible to decipher. The are best imagined than really thought-through. For example, how is Deleuze using Leibniz’s calculus? I’m still lost. I’ll probably never understand. But somehow, I think that he may be right about this–whatever he may be suggesting in evoking the calculus. The book is also full of other interesting and elusive scientific theories in the realm of physics, mathematics, and set-theory. (I don’t know much about any of these subjects and so I shall remain silent on these matters.)Unlike the earlier writings on the history of philosophy where Deleuze remained faithful in his readings, “The Fold” is definitely a performance of Deleuze-Leibniz–more Deleuze than Leibniz but Leibniz as, shall we say, a creative inspiration? In this sense, “The Fold” is closer to Deleuze’s book on Foucault in that he creates a new philosopher: a cyborg, built out of love, remembrance, and a goal towards the future.But then again, does Deleuze top Leibniz in outrageousness? Who was more out-there? Somehow, I think that Leibniz was a bit more out there…

⭐I want to review the contents and the summary of this book if possible. thank you.

⭐the book is fine and in good condition but was of a different edition than the photo.

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