Axel Cherniavsky, Deleuze, Philosophy and the Creation of Concepts – trans. Taylor Adkins – Edinburgh University Press, November 2024, paperback May 2026

Reconstructs Deleuze’s methodology in its interdisciplinary context

• Shows the connections between philosophy, the arts and the sciences, outlining a theory of what has become the new scientific standard: multidisciplinarity
• Proposes solutions to the paradoxes of creation: can creation follow a method? How is it possible to simultaneously continue a tradition and break with it?
• Demonstrates the originality of the Deleuzian conception of philosophy as well as how it addresses the most traditional philosophical problems
• Functions as a dictionary that ‘translates’ the experimental Deleuzian terminology into the vocabulary of everyday language

One feature of Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy is its effort to establish connections with other disciplines and to appeal to non-philosophers. However, Deleuze never establishes these connections without a constant and unconditional reaffirmation of the uniqueness of philosophy. How does he conceive of philosophy? What are its elements? What are its methods? How is philosophy connected to other fields of knowledge and other activities? Axel Cherniavsky provides an answer to these questions by analysing the definition of philosophy Deleuze gives throughout his entire oeuvre: creation of concepts. Through this analysis, you will discover a reconstruction of a creative methodology, a detailed theory of the philosophical concept, a reflection on interdisciplinarity and altogether one of the most precise and systematic conceptions that philosophy has ever given of itself.