Grant Maxwell
@grantmaxwell.bsky.social
Philosopher | Integration and Difference (Routledge 2022) | The Philosophy of Isabelle Stengers (EUP, forthcoming) | Deleuze and Polytheism (Bloomsbury, forthcoming)
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Can anyone recommend an anthology of primary philosophy texts from diverse times and places suitable for undergrads?
October 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Can anyone recommend an anthology of primary philosophy texts from diverse times and places suitable for undergrads?
“My favorite text in all of psychoanalysis is a comment of Jung’s.” Deleuze, 1986 seminar
July 18, 2025 at 11:36 AM
“My favorite text in all of psychoanalysis is a comment of Jung’s.” Deleuze, 1986 seminar
It seems to me that attempting to express Deleuze’s “view” on any particular subject misses the point. He doesn’t generally hold views on subjects. Rather, he creates concepts that allow novel modes of thought and becoming.
July 14, 2025 at 6:12 PM
It seems to me that attempting to express Deleuze’s “view” on any particular subject misses the point. He doesn’t generally hold views on subjects. Rather, he creates concepts that allow novel modes of thought and becoming.
“What poisons life is hatred, including the hatred that is turned back against oneself in the form of guilt.” Deleuze
July 9, 2025 at 7:45 PM
“What poisons life is hatred, including the hatred that is turned back against oneself in the form of guilt.” Deleuze
I just finished writing about A Thousand Plateaus for Deleuze and Polytheism. It’s the longest chapter so far, exploring the implications of the concept of “cosmic forces” in light of the equation of forces and gods in Nietzsche and Philosophy, as well as Varuna-Mitra-Indra, etc.
July 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I just finished writing about A Thousand Plateaus for Deleuze and Polytheism. It’s the longest chapter so far, exploring the implications of the concept of “cosmic forces” in light of the equation of forces and gods in Nietzsche and Philosophy, as well as Varuna-Mitra-Indra, etc.
I love it that Deleuze, in a 1981 seminar, describes philosophers who mediate transitions between historical eras as “hinge-guys,” like Nicholas of Cusa at the border between medieval and modern. Deleuze and Guattari are hinge-guys between the modern and “a people to come.”
July 3, 2025 at 12:22 PM
I love it that Deleuze, in a 1981 seminar, describes philosophers who mediate transitions between historical eras as “hinge-guys,” like Nicholas of Cusa at the border between medieval and modern. Deleuze and Guattari are hinge-guys between the modern and “a people to come.”
“Logic is always defeated by itself, that is to say, by the insignificance of the cases on which it thrives.” Deleuze and Guattari
June 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
“Logic is always defeated by itself, that is to say, by the insignificance of the cases on which it thrives.” Deleuze and Guattari
What’s the most enjoyable book you’ve read about Deleuze?
June 22, 2025 at 10:57 PM
What’s the most enjoyable book you’ve read about Deleuze?
What’s the most enjoyable book you’ve read by Deleuze?
June 22, 2025 at 8:53 PM
What’s the most enjoyable book you’ve read by Deleuze?
It’s funny that Deleuze’s readings of the Stoics, Spinoza, and Nietzsche are often considered “radical” when, it seems to me, he’s actually just reading what they wrote in all its paradoxical complexity rather than reducing them to doctrines conforming to conventional categories.
April 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
It’s funny that Deleuze’s readings of the Stoics, Spinoza, and Nietzsche are often considered “radical” when, it seems to me, he’s actually just reading what they wrote in all its paradoxical complexity rather than reducing them to doctrines conforming to conventional categories.
I keep forgetting to repost the things I post on Twitter over here. I’ll be over there if you need me.
April 26, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I keep forgetting to repost the things I post on Twitter over here. I’ll be over there if you need me.
I’m writing about The Logic of Sense for my next book, Deleuze and Polytheism, and I’m realizing that, whereas I had thought that there was an insuperable disjunction between this text and Difference and Repetition, they’re actually profoundly coherent.
April 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I’m writing about The Logic of Sense for my next book, Deleuze and Polytheism, and I’m realizing that, whereas I had thought that there was an insuperable disjunction between this text and Difference and Repetition, they’re actually profoundly coherent.
“Whatever totalizations knowledge may perform, they remain asymptotic to the virtual totality of langue or language.” Deleuze
April 14, 2025 at 4:33 PM
“Whatever totalizations knowledge may perform, they remain asymptotic to the virtual totality of langue or language.” Deleuze
Schelling on Spinoza: “He alone of all modern thinkers had a feeling for the primordial age we are trying to understand in this book.” (The Ages of the World)
April 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Schelling on Spinoza: “He alone of all modern thinkers had a feeling for the primordial age we are trying to understand in this book.” (The Ages of the World)
“Behind us, in us, before us, sparkle mythical – that is, mythological – constellations, like nebulae or galaxies, in which our ideological constellations take part.” Kostas Axelos
April 12, 2025 at 3:37 PM
“Behind us, in us, before us, sparkle mythical – that is, mythological – constellations, like nebulae or galaxies, in which our ideological constellations take part.” Kostas Axelos
“The Stoic paradox is to affirm destiny and to deny necessity.” Deleuze
April 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
“The Stoic paradox is to affirm destiny and to deny necessity.” Deleuze
“Every great work contains its own critique.” Kostas Axelos
April 10, 2025 at 12:34 PM
“Every great work contains its own critique.” Kostas Axelos
“The technocrat is the natural friend of the dictator—computers and dictatorship; but the revolutionary lives in the gap which separates technical progress from social totality, and inscribes there his dream of permanent revolution.” Deleuze, 1969
April 8, 2025 at 3:10 PM
“The technocrat is the natural friend of the dictator—computers and dictatorship; but the revolutionary lives in the gap which separates technical progress from social totality, and inscribes there his dream of permanent revolution.” Deleuze, 1969
“Not to withdraw from the process, but to go further, to ‘accelerate the process,’ as Nietzsche put it: in this matter, the truth is that we haven't seen anything yet.” Deleuze and Guattari
April 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
“Not to withdraw from the process, but to go further, to ‘accelerate the process,’ as Nietzsche put it: in this matter, the truth is that we haven't seen anything yet.” Deleuze and Guattari
Have we done enough acceleration yet? Can we have our socialist utopia now, please?
April 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Have we done enough acceleration yet? Can we have our socialist utopia now, please?
Can anyone recommend a good text discussing Jung’s influence on Michel Tournier?
April 4, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Can anyone recommend a good text discussing Jung’s influence on Michel Tournier?
I just spent 20 minutes looking for a quote about Deleuze, and it turned out to be me posting on Twitter a few years ago.
April 3, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I just spent 20 minutes looking for a quote about Deleuze, and it turned out to be me posting on Twitter a few years ago.
“Let us apply Occam's razor to Kant's nomenon. By stripping away this unnecessary theoretical encumbrance to Jung's notion of archetype we restore full value to the archetypal image.” James Hillman
April 1, 2025 at 5:06 PM
“Let us apply Occam's razor to Kant's nomenon. By stripping away this unnecessary theoretical encumbrance to Jung's notion of archetype we restore full value to the archetypal image.” James Hillman
“Although dialectic on its own is far from being the highest form of philosophical science, it must accompany it in the same way that rhythm must accompany speech.” Schelling
March 31, 2025 at 3:46 PM
“Although dialectic on its own is far from being the highest form of philosophical science, it must accompany it in the same way that rhythm must accompany speech.” Schelling
“To contemplate is to question.” Deleuze
March 27, 2025 at 5:19 PM
“To contemplate is to question.” Deleuze